(VIANEWS) – Badger Meter (BMI), Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC), Antero Midstream Partners LP (AM) 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. Badger Meter (BMI)
19.8% sales growth and 17.35% return on equity
Badger Meter, Inc. manufactures and markets flow measurement, quality, control, and communication solutions in the United States, Asia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, the Middle East, and internationally. It offers mechanical or static water meters, and related radio and software technologies and services to municipal water utilities. The company also provides flow instrumentation products, including meters, valves, and other sensing instruments to measure and control fluids going through a pipe or pipeline, including water, air, steam, oil, and other liquids and gases to original equipment manufacturers as the primary flow measurement device within a product or system, as well as through manufacturers' representatives. Its flow instrumentation products are used in water/wastewater, heating, ventilating and air conditioning, and corporate sustainability markets. In addition, the company offers ORION Migratable for automatic meter reading; ORION (SE) for traditional fixed network applications; and ORION Cellular for infrastructure-free fixed network meter reading solution, as well as BEACON advanced metering analytics, a secure cloud-hosted software suite that establishes alerts for specific conditions and allows consumer engagement tools that permit end water customers to view and manage their water usage activity. It also serves water utilities, industrial, and other industries. The company sells its products directly, as well as through resellers and representatives. Badger Meter, Inc. was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Badger Meter has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.42.
PE Ratio
Badger Meter has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 69.07. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $69.07 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 17.35%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 27.6%, now sitting on 630.29M for the twelve trailing months.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 32.8% and 30%, respectively.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Badger Meter is 23266 which is 87.09% below its average volume of 180279.
Previous days news about Badger Meter(BMI)
- According to Zacks on Monday, 21 August, "Some other stocks worth consideration in the broader technology space are Badger Meter (BMI Quick QuoteBMI – Free Report) , Salesforce (CRM Quick QuoteCRM – Free Report) and Pegasystems (PEGA Quick QuotePEGA – Free Report) . "
- According to Zacks on Monday, 21 August, "Some better-ranked stocks in the broader technology space are Woodward (WWD Quick QuoteWWD – Free Report) , Aspen Technology (AZPN Quick QuoteAZPN – Free Report) and Badger Meter (BMI Quick QuoteBMI – Free Report) . ", "Woodward presently sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), whereas Aspen Technology and Badger Meter currently carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). "
- According to Zacks on Tuesday, 22 August, "Some other top-ranked stocks in the broader technology space are Woodward (WWD Quick QuoteWWD – Free Report) , Aspen Technology (AZPN Quick QuoteAZPN – Free Report) and Badger Meter (BMI Quick QuoteBMI – Free Report) . ", "Woodward presently sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), whereas Aspen Technology and Badger Meter currently carry a Zacks Rank #2. "
- Is badger meter (bmi) outperforming other computer and technology stocks this year?. According to Zacks on Tuesday, 22 August, "Looking more specifically, Badger Meter belongs to the Instruments – Control industry, a group that includes 7 individual stocks and currently sits at #23 in the Zacks Industry Rank. ", "Is Badger Meter (BMI Quick QuoteBMI – Free Report) one of those stocks right now? "
2. Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC)
13.9% sales growth and 20.94% return on equity
Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups, to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. The firm provides growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; company, asset specific, or intellectual property acquisition financing; convertible, subordinated and/or mezzanine loans; domestic and international corporate expansion; vendor financing; revenue acceleration by sales and marketing development, and manufacturing expansion. It provides asset-based financing with a focus on cash flow; accounts receivable facilities; equipment loans or leases; equipment acquisition; facilities build-out and/or expansion; working capital revolving lines of credit; inventory. The firm also provides bridge financing to IPO or mergers and acquisitions or technology acquisition; dividend recapitalizations and other sources of investor liquidity; cash flow financing to protect against share price volatility; competitor acquisition; pre-IPO financing for extra cash on the balance sheet; public company financing to continue asset growth and production capacity; short-term bridge financing; and strategic and intellectual property acquisition financings. It also focuses on customized financing solutions, emerging growth, mid venture, and late venture financing. The firm invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The firm generally seeks to invest in companies that have been operating for at least six to 12 months prior to the date of their investment. It prefers to invest in technology, energy technology, sustainable and renewable technology, and life sciences. Within technology the firm focuses on advanced specialty materials and chemicals; communication and networking, consumer and business products; consumer products and services, digital media and consumer internet; electronics and computer hardware; enterprise software and services; gaming; healthcare services; information services; business services; media, content and information; mobile; resource management; security software; semiconductors; semiconductors and hardware; and software sector. Within energy technology, it invests in agriculture; clean technology; energy and renewable technology, fuels and power technology; geothermal; smart grid and energy efficiency and monitoring technologies; solar; and wind. Within life sciences, the firm invests in biopharmaceuticals; biotechnology tools; diagnostics; drug discovery, development and delivery; medical devices and equipment; surgical devices; therapeutics; pharma services; and specialty pharmaceuticals. It also invests in educational services. The firm invests primarily in United States based companies and considers investment in the West Coast, Mid-Atlantic regions, Southeast and Midwest; particularly in the areas of software, biotech and information services. The firm prefers to invest between $10 million to $250 million in equity per transactions. It invests generally between $1 million to $40 million in companies focused primarily on business services, communications, electronics, hardware, and healthcare services. The firm invests primarily in private companies but also have investments in public companies. For equity investments, the firm seeks to represent a controlling interest in its portfolio companies which may exceed 25% of the voting securities of such companies. The firm seeks to invest a limited portion of its assets in equipment-based loans to early-stage prospective portfolio companies. These loans are generally for amounts up to $3 million but may be up to $15 million for certain energy technology venture investments. The firm allows certain debt investments have the right to convert a portion of the debt investment into equity. It also co-invests with other private equity firms. The firm seeks to exit its investments through initial public offering, a private sale of equity interest to a third party, a merger or an acquisition of the company or a purchase of the equity position by the company or one of its stockholders. The firm has structured debt with warrants which typically have maturities of between two and seven years with an average of three years; senior debt with an investment horizon of less than three years; equipment loans with an investment horizon ranging from three to four years; and equity related securities with an investment horizon ranging from three to seven years. The firm prefers to invest through its balance sheet capital. The firm formerly known as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. Hercules Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; San Diego, California; Westport, Connecticut; Elmhurst, Illinois; Santa Monica, California; McLean, Virginia; New York, New York; Radnor, Pennsylvania; and Washington, District of Columbia and London, United Kingdom.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Hercules Technology Growth Capital has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.5.
PE Ratio
Hercules Technology Growth Capital has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 10.89. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $10.89 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 20.94%.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Aug 16, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.92 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 11.29%.
3. Antero Midstream Partners LP (AM)
9.1% sales growth and 15.53% return on equity
Antero Midstream Corporation owns and operates midstream energy assets. It owns and operates natural gas gathering pipelines, compression stations, processing and fractionation plants, and water handling and treatment assets in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale basins. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Antero Midstream Partners LP has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.71.
PE Ratio
Antero Midstream Partners LP has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 16.66. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $16.66 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 15.53%.
4. FS Bancorp (FSBW)
7.7% sales growth and 14.14% return on equity
FS Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for 1st Security Bank of Washington that provides banking and financial services to local families, local and regional businesses, and industry niches. The company operates in two segments, Commercial and Consumer Banking; and Home Lending. It offers various deposit instruments, including checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company provides one-to-four-family residential first mortgages, second mortgage/home equity loan products, non-mortgage commercial business loans, commercial real estate loans, and construction and development loans, as well as consumer loans, which primarily include personal lines of credit, credit cards, automobile, direct home improvement, loans on deposit, and recreational loans. As of December 31, 2021, it operated 21 full bank service branches and 10 home loan production offices in suburban communities in the greater Puget Sound area, including Snohomish, King, Pierce, Jefferson, Kitsap, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Thurston, and Lewis counties; and one loan production office in the market area of the Tri-Cities. The company was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, FS Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.23.
PE Ratio
FS Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 7.3. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $7.3 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 14.14%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
FS Bancorp’s stock is valued at $30.87 at 16:22 EST, way under its 52-week high of $37.39 and way higher than its 52-week low of $26.08.
