(VIANEWS) – The Ensign Group (ENSG), NV5 Global (NVEE), ZoomInfo (ZI) 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. The Ensign Group (ENSG)
19.1% sales growth and 19.16% return on equity
The Ensign Group, Inc. provides health care services in the post-acute care continuum and other ancillary businesses. The company operates in two segments, Skilled Services and Real Estate. The company offers skilled services, which include short and long-term nursing care services for patients with chronic conditions, prolonged illness, and the elderly; and physical, occupational, and speech therapies and other rehabilitative and healthcare services. It also provides standard services, such as room and board, special nutritional programs, social, recreational, entertainment, and other services. In addition, the company offers senior living, as well as mobile diagnostics services; leases real estate properties; and provides other ancillary services consisting of digital x-ray, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, laboratory, sub-acute, and patient transportation services to people in their homes or at long-term care facilities. As of April 4, 2022, it operated 252 healthcare facilities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, The Ensign Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.11.
PE Ratio
The Ensign Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 23.97. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $23.97 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 19.16%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter and the next is 13.5% and 16.4%, respectively.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
The Ensign Group’s stock is valued at $98.50 at 20:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $102.26 and way above its 52-week low of $78.84.
2. NV5 Global (NVEE)
17.5% sales growth and 6.96% return on equity
NV5 Global, Inc. provides professional and technical engineering and consulting services to public and private sector clients in the infrastructure, utility services, construction, real estate, and environmental markets in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Infrastructure; Building, Technology & Sciences; and Geospatial Solutions. The company offers site selection and planning, design, water resources, transportation, structural engineering, land development, surveying, power delivery, building code compliance, and other services; and construction materials testing and engineering, geotechnical engineering and consulting, and forensic consulting services. It also provides governmental outsourcing and consulting, and technical outsourcing services; and geospatial data analytic and mapping services. In addition, the company offers mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design; commissioning; energy performance, management, and optimization; building program management; acoustical design consulting; and audiovisual–security and surveillance–information technology–data center services, as well as energy services. Further, it provides various services, such as investigating and analyzing environmental conditions, and recommending corrective measures and procedures; occupational health and safety services; radiation exposure and protection, and nuclear safety and industrial hygiene analyses services; hydrogeological modeling and environmental programs; water resource planning, monitoring, and environmental management of wastewater facilities; solid waste landfill investigations; permitting and compliance; storm water pollution; environmental impact statement support; agricultural waste management and permitting; and wetland evaluations. The company was formerly known as NV5 Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to NV5 Global, Inc. in December 2015. NV5 Global, Inc. was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, NV5 Global has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.08.
PE Ratio
NV5 Global has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 35.36. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $35.36 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 6.96%.
Sales Growth
NV5 Global’s sales growth is 9.5% for the current quarter and 17.5% for the next.
Moving Average
NV5 Global’s worth is above its 50-day moving average of $105.55 and below its 200-day moving average of $117.59.
3. ZoomInfo (ZI)
17% sales growth and 4.64% return on equity
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides go-to-market intelligence and engagement platform for sales and marketing teams in the United States and internationally. The company's cloud-based platform provides information on organizations and professionals to help users identify target customers and decision makers, obtain continually updated predictive lead and company scoring, monitor buying signals and other attributes of target companies, craft messages, engage through automated sales tools, and track progress through the deal cycle. It serves enterprises, mid-market companies, and down to small businesses that operate in various industry verticals, including software, business services, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, retail, media and internet, transportation, education, hospitality, and real estate. ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ZoomInfo has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.25.
PE Ratio
ZoomInfo has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 73.78. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $73.78 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 4.64%.
4. Holly Energy Partners, L.P. (HEP)
15.4% sales growth and 24.22% return on equity
Holly Energy Partners, L.P. provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage, and throughput services to the petroleum industry in the United States. It operates through two segments, Pipelines and Terminals, and Refinery Processing Unit. The company operates refined product pipelines that transport conventional gasolines, reformulated gasolines, and low-octane gasolines for oxygenate blending, as well as sulfur diesel and jet fuels, and liquefied petroleum gases; intermediate product pipelines that transport intermediate feedstocks and crude oils; and oil trunk, gathering, and connection pipelines that delivers crude oil. It operates 26 main pipelines; crude gathering networks; 10 refined product terminals; 1 crude terminal; 1 lube terminal; 31,800 track feet of rail storage; 7 locations with truck and/or rail racks; and tankages at 6 refining facility locations, as well as five refinery processing units. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Dallas, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Holly Energy Partners, L.P. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.77.
PE Ratio
Holly Energy Partners, L.P. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 10.84. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $10.84 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 24.22%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Holly Energy Partners, L.P. is 334718 which is 67% above its average volume of 200425.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Holly Energy Partners, L.P.’s stock is valued at $19.18 at 20:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $19.85 and way higher than its 52-week low of $15.51.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Holly Energy Partners, L.P.’s EBITDA is 44.16.
Moving Average
Holly Energy Partners, L.P.’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $18.23 and higher than its 200-day moving average of $18.12.
5. Ciena Corporation (CIEN)
13.8% sales growth and 7.1% return on equity
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ciena Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.34.
PE Ratio
Ciena Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 31.03. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $31.03 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 7.1%.
Moving Average
Ciena Corporation’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $43.50 and way below its 200-day moving average of $46.63.
6. IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX)
9.9% sales growth and 94.43% return on equity
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes products primarily for the companion animal veterinary, livestock and poultry, dairy, and water testing markets worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Companion Animal Group; Water Quality Products; and Livestock, Poultry and Dairy. It also provides point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, including instruments, consumables, and rapid assay test kits; veterinary reference laboratory diagnostic and consulting services; practice management and diagnostic imaging systems and services for veterinarians; and health monitoring, biological materials testing, and laboratory animal diagnostic instruments, and services for biomedical research community. In addition, the company offers diagnostic and health-monitoring products for livestock, poultry, and dairy products that test water for various microbiological contaminants; point-of-care electrolytes and blood gas analyzers; OPTI SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test kit for human COVID-19 testing; in-clinic chemistry, blood and urine chemistry, hematology, immunoassay, urinalysis, and coagulation analyzers; and SNAP rapid assays test kits. Further, it provides Colilert, Colilert-18, and Colisure tests, which detect the presence of total coliforms and E. coli in water; Enterolert, Pseudalert, Filta-Max and Filta-Max xpress, Legiolert, and Quanti-Tray products; and veterinary software and services for independent veterinary clinics and corporate groups. The company markets its products through marketing, customer service, sales, and technical service groups, as well as through independent distributors and other resellers. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Westbrook, Maine.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, IDEXX Laboratories has a trailing twelve months EPS of $8.29.
PE Ratio
IDEXX Laboratories has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 61.54. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $61.54 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 94.43%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
IDEXX Laboratories’s EBITDA is 152.87.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 58.3% and 11.6%, respectively.
7. Fidus Investment Corporation (FDUS)
9.2% sales growth and 8.16% return on equity
Fidus Investment Corporation is a business development company. It specializing in leveraged buyouts, refinancings, change of ownership transactions, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, mezzanine, growth capital, business expansion, lower middle market investments, debt investments, subordinated and second lien loans, senior secured and unitranche debt, preferred equity, warrants, subordinated debt, senior subordinated notes, junior secured loans, and unitranche loans. It does not invest in turnarounds or distressed situations. The fund prefers to invest in aerospace and defense, business services, consumer products and services including retail, food, and beverage, healthcare products and services, industrial products and services, information technology services, niche manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and value-added distribution sectors. It seeks to invest in companies based in United States. The fund typically invests between $5 million and $15 million per transaction in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million and an annual EBITDA between $3 million and $20 million, but it can occasionally invest in larger or smaller companies. It seeks to acquire minority equity stakes and board observation rights in conjunction with its investments.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Fidus Investment Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.6.
PE Ratio
Fidus Investment Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.8. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.8 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 8.16%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 15.7% and 9.8%, respectively.
Sales Growth
Fidus Investment Corporation’s sales growth is 18.2% for the ongoing quarter and 9.2% for the next.
8. Lear Corporation (LEA)
7.4% sales growth and 10.26% return on equity
Lear Corporation designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, assembles, and supplies automotive seating, and electrical distribution systems and related components for automotive original equipment manufacturers in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and internationally. Its Seating segment offers leather and fabric products, seat covers, recliner mechanisms, seat tracks and foams, seat structures and mechanisms, and headrests for automobiles and light trucks, compact cars, and sport utility vehicles. The company's E-Systems segment offers electrical distribution systems that route electrical signals and networks, and manage electrical power within the vehicle for various powertrains, such as traditional internal combustion engine architectures, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric architectures. This segment's products comprise wire harnesses, terminals and connectors, and junction boxes; and electronic control modules, such as body control modules, smart junction boxes, gateway modules, wireless receiver and transmitter technology, lighting control modules, audio domain controllers, amplifiers, and communication modules. It also provides electrification products comprising charging systems that include onboard charging modules and cord set charging equipment; battery electronics, which comprise battery disconnect units, cell monitoring supervisory systems, and integrated total battery control modules; and other power management modules, including converter and inverter systems. In addition, this segment offers cybersecurity software; advanced vehicle positioning for automated and autonomous driving applications; roadside modules that communicate real-time traffic information; and cellular protocols for vehicle connectivity, as well as Xevo Journeyware, a platform for the cloud, vehicles, and mobile devices; and connectivity products. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Lear Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $7.07.
PE Ratio
Lear Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 21.86. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $21.86 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 10.26%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Lear Corporation’s stock is valued at $154.52 at 20:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $158.44 and way above its 52-week low of $114.67.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is 79.3% and 17.6%, respectively.
