(VIANEWS) – Towers Watson & Co (TW), Stewart Information Services Corporation (STC), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH) 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. Towers Watson & Co (TW)
21.9% sales growth and 7.31% return on equity
Tradeweb Markets Inc., together with its subsidiaries, builds and operates electronic marketplaces worldwide. The company's marketplaces facilitate trading in a range of asset classes, including rates, credit, money markets, and equities. It offers pre-trade data and analytics, trade execution, and trade processing, as well as post-trade data, analytics, and reporting services. The company provides flexible order and trading systems to institutional investors. It also offers a range of electronic, voice, and hybrid platforms to dealers and financial institutions on electronic or hybrid markets with Dealerweb platform; and trading solutions for financial advisory firms and traders with Tradeweb Direct platform. The company serves in the institutional, wholesale, and retail client sectors. Its customers include asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, central banks, banks and dealers, proprietary trading firms, retail brokerage and financial advisory firms, and regional dealers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Tradeweb Markets Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Refinitiv Parent Limited.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Towers Watson & Co has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.71.
PE Ratio
Towers Watson & Co has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 58.54. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $58.54 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 7.31%.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Feb 29, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.37 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 0.36%.
2. Stewart Information Services Corporation (STC)
15.6% sales growth and 3.32% return on equity
Stewart Information Services Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides title insurance and real estate transaction related services. The company operates through Title and Real Estate Solutions segments. The Title segment is involved in searching, examining, closing, and insuring the condition of the title to real property. This segment also offers home and personal insurance services; services for tax-deferred exchanges; and digital customer engagement platform services. The Real Estate Solutions segment provides appraisal management, online notarization and closing, credit and real estate information, and search and valuation services to the mortgage industry. It offers its products and services through its directly owned policy-issuing offices, network of independent agencies, and other businesses within the company. The company serves homebuyers and sellers, residential and commercial real estate professionals, title agencies, real estate attorneys and investors, and home builders, as well as mortgage lenders and servicers. It operates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Stewart Information Services Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.11.
PE Ratio
Stewart Information Services Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 54.54. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $54.54 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 3.32%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter and the next is 44% and 52.2%, respectively.
3. Tri Pointe Homes (TPH)
14.7% sales growth and 11.94% return on equity
Tri Pointe Homes, Inc. engages in the design, construction, and sale of single-family attached and detached homes in the United States. The company operates through a portfolio of six regional home building brands comprising Maracay in Arizona; Pardee Homes in California and Nevada; Quadrant Homes in Washington; Trendmaker Homes in Texas; TRI Pointe Homes in California, Colorado, and the Carolinas; and Winchester Homes in Maryland and Northern Virginia. It operates active selling communities, and owned or controlled lots. The company sells its homes through own sales representatives and independent real estate brokers. It also provides financial services, such as mortgage financing, title and escrow, and property and casualty insurance agency services. The company was formerly known as TRI Pointe Group, Inc. and changed its name to Tri Pointe Homes, Inc. in January 2021. Tri Pointe Homes, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Incline Village, Nevada.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Tri Pointe Homes has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.45.
PE Ratio
Tri Pointe Homes has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 10.39. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $10.39 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 11.94%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is 4.1% and 40%, respectively.
4. AvalonBay Communities (AVB)
13.5% sales growth and 8.06% return on equity
As of December 31, 2023, the Company owned or held a direct or indirect ownership interest in 299 apartment communities containing 90,669 apartment homes in 12 states and the District of Columbia, of which 18 communities were under development. The Company is an equity REIT in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring and managing apartment communities in leading metropolitan areas in New England, the New York/New Jersey Metro area, the Mid-Atlantic, the Pacific Northwest, and Northern and Southern California, as well as in the Company's expansion regions of Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina, Southeast Florida, Dallas and Austin, Texas, and Denver, Colorado.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, AvalonBay Communities has a trailing twelve months EPS of $6.58.
PE Ratio
AvalonBay Communities has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 27.38. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $27.38 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 8.06%.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Mar 27, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 6.8 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.64%.
5. Barrett Business Services (BBSI)
8.3% sales growth and 26.85% return on equity
Barrett Business Services, Inc. provides business management solutions for small and mid-sized companies in the United States. The company develops a management platform that integrates a knowledge-based approach from the management consulting industry with tools from the human resource outsourcing industry. It offers professional employer services under which it enters into a client services agreement to establish a co-employment relationship with each client company, assuming responsibility for payroll, payroll taxes, workers' compensation coverage, and other administration functions for the client's existing workforce. The company also provides staffing and recruiting services, such as on-demand or short-term staffing assignment, contract staffing, direct placement, and long-term or indefinite-term on-site management services. It serves electronics manufacturers, light-manufacturing industries, agriculture-based companies, transportation and shipping enterprises, food processors, telecommunications companies, public utilities, general contractors in various construction-related fields, and professional services firms. The company was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Barrett Business Services has a trailing twelve months EPS of $7.39.
PE Ratio
Barrett Business Services has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 17.01. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $17.01 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 26.85%.
Moving Average
Barrett Business Services’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $115.52 and way above its 200-day moving average of $101.76.
Sales Growth
Barrett Business Services’s sales growth is 3.7% for the current quarter and 8.3% for the next.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Barrett Business Services’s EBITDA is 0.65.
Previous days news about Barrett Business Services(BBSI)
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 3 April, "A couple of better-ranked stocks from the broader Zacks Business Services sector are HNI (HNI Quick QuoteHNI – Free Report) and Barrett Business Services (BBSI Quick QuoteBBSI – Free Report) ."
