(VIANEWS) – Travelzoo (TZOO), ServiceNow (NOW), BGC Partners (BGCP) are the highest sales growth and return on equity stocks on this list.
Here is a list of stocks with an above 5% expected next quarter sales growth, and a 3% or higher return on equity. May these stocks be a good medium-term investment option?
1. Travelzoo (TZOO)
27.9% sales growth and 100.23% return on equity
Travelzoo, an Internet media company, provides travel, entertainment, and local deals from travel and entertainment companies, and local businesses in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. Its publications and products include Travelzoo Website; Travelzoo iPhone and Android apps; Travelzoo Top 20 email newsletter; and Newsflash email alert service. The company also operates the Travelzoo Network, a network of third-party Websites that list travel deals published by the company; and Local Deals and Getaway listings, which allow its members to purchase vouchers for deals from local businesses, such as spas, hotels, and restaurants. It serves airlines, hotels, cruise lines, vacations packagers, tour operators, destinations, car rental companies, travel agents, theater and performing arts groups, restaurants, spas, and activity companies. Travelzoo Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Travelzoo has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.57.
PE Ratio
Travelzoo has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 15.05. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $15.05 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 100.23%.
Moving Average
Travelzoo’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $8.53 and way above its 200-day moving average of $6.00.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Travelzoo’s EBITDA is 16.81.
2. ServiceNow (NOW)
21.9% sales growth and 8.34% return on equity
ServiceNow, Inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions that defines, structures, consolidates, manages, and automates services for enterprises worldwide. The company operates the Now platform for workflow automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, performance analytics, electronic service catalogs and portals, configuration management systems, data benchmarking, encryption, and collaboration and development tools. It also provides information technology (IT) service management applications; IT service management product suite for enterprise's employees, customers, and partners; strategic portfolio management product suite; IT operations management product that connects a customer's physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure; IT asset management; and security operations that connects with internal and third party. In addition, the company offers integrated risk management product to manage risk and resilience; environmental, social and governance management product; human resources, legal, and workplace service delivery products; safe workplace suite products; customer service management product; and field service management applications. Further, it provides App Engine product; Automation Engine enables application to extend workflows; platform privacy and security product; procurement operations management suite; and professional and customer support services. The company serves government, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, IT services, technology, oil and gas, education, and consumer products through direct sales team and resale partners. It has a strategic partnership with Celonis to help customers identify and prioritize processes that are suitable for automation. The company was formerly known as Service-now.com and changed its name to ServiceNow, Inc. in May 2012. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ServiceNow has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.94.
PE Ratio
ServiceNow has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 290.2. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $290.2 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 8.34%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for ServiceNow is 609253 which is 61.73% below its average volume of 1592350.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
ServiceNow’s stock is valued at $562.98 at 06:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $576.68 and way above its 52-week low of $337.00.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter and the next is 25.9% and 23.5%, respectively.
3. BGC Partners (BGCP)
16.9% sales growth and 6.28% return on equity
BGC Partners, Inc. operates as a financial brokerage and technology company in the United States, France, other Europe, the United Kingdom, other Americas, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East. It offers various brokerage products, such as fixed income, such as government bonds, corporate bonds, and other debt instruments, as well as related interest rate derivatives and credit derivatives; and fixed income, equity derivatives and cash equities, energy and commodities, shipping, insurance, and futures and options. The company also provides trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information, consulting, and other back office services to financial and non-financial institutions. In addition, it offers electronic and hybrid brokerage, other financial technology solutions, market data and related information services, and analytics related to financial instrument and markets under the Fenics, FMX, BGC Trader, CreditMatch, Fenics Market Data, Fenics GO, BGC Market Data, kACE2, Capitalab, Swaptioniser, CBID, Lucera, and LumeAlfa brand names. Further, the company provides screen-based market solutions, which enable its clients to develop a marketplace, trade with their customers, issue debt, trade odd lots, access program trading interfaces, and access its network and intellectual property; option pricing and analysis tools; and software and technology infrastructure for the transactional and technology related elements. It primarily serves banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, and corporations, as well as investment firms. BGC Partners, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, BGC Partners has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.11.
PE Ratio
BGC Partners has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 38.64. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $38.64 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 6.28%.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on May 15, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.04 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 0.92%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 5.1%, now sitting on 1.76B for the twelve trailing months.
4. Qualys (QLYS)
12.9% sales growth and 32.16% return on equity
Qualys, Inc. provides cloud-based information technology (IT), security, and compliance solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers Qualys Cloud Apps, which includes Vulnerability Management; Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response; Threat Protection; Continuous Monitoring; Patch Management; Multi-Vector Endpoint Detection and Response; Certificate Assessment; SaaS Detection and Response; Secure Enterprise Mobility; Policy Compliance; Security Configuration Assessment; PCI Compliance; File Integrity Monitoring; Security Assessment Questionnaire; Out of-Band Configuration Assessment; Web Application Scanning; Web Application Firewall; Global Asset Inventory; Cybersecurity Asset Management; Certificate Inventory; Cloud Inventory; Cloud Security Assessment; and Container Security. Its integrated suite of IT, security, and compliance solutions delivered on its Qualys Cloud Platform enables customers to identify and manage IT assets, collect and analyze IT security data, discover and prioritize vulnerabilities, recommend and implement remediation actions, and verify the implementation of such actions. The company also provides asset tagging and management, reporting and dashboards, questionnaires and collaboration, remediation and workflow, big data correlation and analytics engine, and alerts and notifications, which enable integrated workflows, management and real-time analysis, and reporting across IT, security, and compliance solutions. The company offers its solutions through its sales teams, as well as through its network of channel partners, such as security consulting organizations, managed service providers, resellers, and consulting firms. It serves enterprises, government entities, and small and medium-sized businesses in various industries, including education, financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, retail, technology, and utilities. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Foster City, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Qualys has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.81.
PE Ratio
Qualys has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 45.97. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $45.97 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 32.16%.
Moving Average
Qualys’s worth is above its 50-day moving average of $121.90 and higher than its 200-day moving average of $123.34.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 15.2%, now sitting on 506.99M for the twelve trailing months.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Qualys’s EBITDA is 106.12.
5. Silicom Ltd (SILC)
12.5% sales growth and 11.46% return on equity
Silicom Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports networking and data infrastructure solutions for a range of servers, server-based systems, and communications devices in the United States, North America, Israel, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It offers server network interface cards; and smart cards, such as smart server adapters, which include redirector and switching cards, encryption and data compression hardware acceleration cards, forward error correction acceleration and offloading cards, time synchronization cards, and field programmable gate array-based cards. The company also provides virtualized and universal customer-premises equipment; edge devices for SD-WAN and NFV deployments; and distributed units for the 5G mobile infrastructure market. It serves original equipment manufacturing, cloud, telco, mobile, and related service provider customers. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Kfar Sava, Israel.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Silicom Ltd has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.89.
PE Ratio
Silicom Ltd has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.75. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.75 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 11.46%.
Moving Average
Silicom Ltd’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $35.22 and below its 200-day moving average of $38.85.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Silicom Ltd is 8771 which is 39.38% below its average volume of 14470.
6. Unifirst Corporation (UNF)
10% sales growth and 5.35% return on equity
UniFirst Corporation provides workplace uniforms and protective work wear clothing in the United States, Europe, and Canada. The company operates through U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning, Manufacturing, Specialty Garments Rental and Cleaning, and First Aid segments. It designs, manufactures, personalizes, rents, cleans, delivers, and sells a range of uniforms and protective clothing, including shirts, pants, jackets, coveralls, lab coats, smocks, and aprons; and specialized protective wear, such as flame resistant and high visibility garments. The company also rents and sells industrial wiping products, floor mats, facility service products, and dry and wet mops; restroom and cleaning supplies comprising air fresheners, paper products, gloves, masks, sanitizers, and hand soaps; and other textile products. In addition, it provides first aid cabinet services and other safety supplies; decontaminates and cleans work clothes, and other items that is exposed to radioactive materials; and services special cleanroom protective wear and facilities. Further, it offers a range of garment service options, including full-service rental programs in which garments are cleaned and serviced; lease programs in which garments are cleaned and maintained by individual employees; and purchase programs to buy garments and related items directly. The company serves automobile service centers and dealers, delivery services, food and general merchandise retailers, food processors and service operations, light manufacturers, maintenance facilities, restaurants, service companies, soft and durable goods wholesalers, transportation companies, healthcare providers, government agencies, research and development laboratories, high technology companies, and utilities operating nuclear reactors, as well as others who require employee clothing for image, identification, protection, or utility purposes. UniFirst Corporation was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Unifirst Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.47.
PE Ratio
Unifirst Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 30.54. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $30.54 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 5.35%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 11.5%, now sitting on 2.11B for the twelve trailing months.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Unifirst Corporation is 59552 which is 8.33% below its average volume of 64966.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Unifirst Corporation’s stock is valued at $167.06 at 06:22 EST, way below its 52-week high of $205.59 and higher than its 52-week low of $158.40.
