(VIANEWS) – Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Yelp (YELP) 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. Ambac Financial Group (AMBC)
34.1% sales growth and 4.2% return on equity
Ambac Financial Group, Inc., a financial services holding company, provides financial guarantees in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Australia, France, and Internationally. It offers financial guarantee insurance policies; and credit derivative contracts and interest rate derivative transactions. The company was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ambac Financial Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.34.
PE Ratio
Ambac Financial Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 13.42. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $13.42 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 4.2%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 68.3%, now sitting on 310M for the twelve trailing months.
Moving Average
Ambac Financial Group’s value is way higher than its 50-day moving average of $15.31 and way above its 200-day moving average of $14.54.
Sales Growth
Ambac Financial Group’s sales growth is 18.2% for the present quarter and 34.1% for the next.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Ambac Financial Group’s stock is valued at $17.98 at 06:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $18.45 and way higher than its 52-week low of $11.26.
2. Insight Enterprises (NSIT)
8% sales growth and 17.92% return on equity
Insight Enterprises, Inc. provides information technology hardware, software, and services solutions in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. It provides solutions to gain insights to network enabled devices, and spots patterns and trends through mass analysis; custom applications to help clients create disruption; custom-developed mobile, cloud, and IoT applications; and custom-developed solutions to help clients review actionable insights within their data, including artificial intelligence for prediction, optimization, cognitive, and vision services. The company also offers various services, such as hybrid cloud, migration and consolidation, workload-platform alignment, converged/hyper converged solutions, and software-defined data center; data platform modernization services; integrated network and security solutions; and consulting, professional, managed, and support services. In addition, it sources, procures, stages, configures, integrates, tests, refurbishes, and redeploys IT products spanning endpoints to infrastructure; and offers software life cycle, and hardware warranty and software maintenance services. Further, the company provides desktop, notebook, tablet, and mobile devices coupled with cloud-based productivity solutions; workplace services, including virtual technical support, remote service desk and automated self-service solutions; and procures, stages, provides, manages, and disposes hardware assets. Additionally, it sells hardware and software products. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Insight Enterprises has a trailing twelve months EPS of $7.94.
PE Ratio
Insight Enterprises has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.04. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.04 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 17.92%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Insight Enterprises is 132823 which is 46.33% below its average volume of 247519.
3. Yelp (YELP)
7% sales growth and 13.59% return on equity
Yelp Inc. operates a platform that connects consumers with local businesses in the United States and internationally. The company's platform covers various categories, including restaurants, shopping, beauty and fitness, health, and other categories, as well as home, local, auto, professional, pets, events, real estate, and financial services. It provides free and paid advertising products to businesses, which include cost-per-click advertising and multi-location Ad products, as well as enables businesses to deliver targeted advertising to large and high-intent audience; and business listing page products. The company also offers other services comprising Yelp Guest Manager, a subscription-based suite of front-of-house management tools for restaurants, nightlife and certain other venues, which include online reservations, a waitlist management solution that allows consumers to check wait times and join waitlists remotely, as well as through hostless kiosks, and seating and server rotation management tools; Yelp Knowledge program that offers business owners local analytics and insights through access to its historical data and other proprietary content; and Yelp Fusion, which offers free access to various basic information through publicly available APIs, and paid access to content and data for consumer-facing enterprise use. In addition, it provides content licensing, as well as allows third-party data providers to update and manage business listing information on behalf of businesses. Further, the company offers its products directly through its sales force; indirectly through partners; and online through its website and business app, as well as non-advertising partner arrangements. It has partnership with Grubhub for providing consumers with a service to place food orders for pickup and delivery. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Yelp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.35.
PE Ratio
Yelp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 30.1. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $30.1 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 13.59%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Yelp’s stock is valued at $40.64 at 06:22 EST, way under its 52-week high of $48.99 and way higher than its 52-week low of $27.56.
Sales Growth
Yelp’s sales growth is 4.7% for the current quarter and 7% for the next.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter is 23.8% and a drop 41.8% for the next.
4. Gartner (IT)
6.4% sales growth and 133.87% return on equity
Gartner, Inc. operates as a research and advisory company in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Research, Conferences, and Consulting. The Research segment delivers its research primarily through a subscription service that include on-demand access to published research content, data and benchmarks, and direct access to a network of research experts. The Conferences segment offers executives and teams in an organization the opportunity to learn, share, and network. The Consulting segment offers market-leading research, custom analysis, and on-the-ground support services. This segment also offers actionable solutions for IT-related priorities, including IT cost optimization, digital transformation, and IT sourcing optimization. Gartner, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Gartner has a trailing twelve months EPS of $11.06.
PE Ratio
Gartner has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 42.08. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $42.08 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 133.87%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter is 5.3% and a drop 2.7% for the next.
Sales Growth
Gartner’s sales growth is 5.5% for the present quarter and 6.4% for the next.
5. ResMed (RMD)
6.4% sales growth and 22.39% return on equity
ResMed Inc. develops, manufactures, distributes, and markets medical devices and cloud-based software applications for the healthcare markets. It operates in two segments, Sleep and Respiratory Care, and Software as a Service. It offers various products and solutions for a range of respiratory disorders, including technologies to be applied in medical and consumer products, ventilation devices, diagnostic products, mask systems for use in the hospital and home, headgear and other accessories, dental devices, and cloud-based software informatics solutions to manage patient outcomes, as well as provides customer and business processes. The company also provides AirView, a cloud-based system that enables remote monitoring and changing of patients' device settings; myAir, a personalized therapy management application for patients with sleep apnea that provides support, education, and troubleshooting tools for increased patient engagement and improved compliance; U-Sleep, a compliance monitoring solution that enables home medical equipment (HME) to streamline their sleep programs; connectivity module and propeller solutions; and Propeller portal. It offers out-of-hospital software solution, such as Brightree business management software and service solutions to providers of HME, pharmacy, home infusion, orthotics, and prosthetics services; MatrixCare care management and related ancillary solutions to senior living, skilled nursing, life plan communities, home health, home care, and hospice organizations, as well as related accountable care organizations; HEALTHCAREfirst that offers electronic health record, software, billing and coding services, and analytics for home health and hospice agencies; and MEDIFOX DAN's software solutions. The company markets its products to sleep clinics, home healthcare dealers, and hospitals through a network of distributors and direct sales force. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ResMed has a trailing twelve months EPS of $6.05.
PE Ratio
ResMed has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 30.72. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $30.72 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 22.39%.
6. Ituran Location and Control Ltd. (ITRN)
5.2% sales growth and 30.23% return on equity
Ituran Location and Control Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides location-based telematics services and machine-to-machine telematics products. It operates through two segments, Telematics Services and Telematics Products. The Telematics services segment offers stolen vehicle recovery and tracking services, which enables to locate, track, and recover stolen vehicles for its subscribers; fleet management services that enable corporate and individual customers to track and manage their vehicles in real time; and locator services that allow customers to protect valuable merchandise and equipment. This segment also delivers on-demand navigation guidance, information, and assistance, including the provision of traffic reports and directions, as well as information on the location of gas stations, car repair shops, post offices, hospitals, and other facilities; and Connected Car, a service platform that includes a back-office application, a telematics device installed in the vehicle, mobile apps for IOS and Android users, and interface using the car infotainment screen, as well as usage based insurance and auto financing. This segment serves insurance companies and agents, car manufacturers, dealers and importers, cooperative sales channels, and private subscribers. The Telematics Products segment offers Base Site, a radio receiver that includes a processor and a data computation unit to collect and send data to and from transponders, and to control centers; Control Center, a center consisting of software used to collect data from various base sites, conduct location calculations, and transmit location data to various customers and law enforcement agencies; navigation and tracking devices installed in vehicles; and SMART, a portable transmitter installed in vehicles that sends a signal to the base site enabling the location of vehicles, equipment, or an individual. Ituran Location and Control Ltd. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Azor, Israel.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ituran Location and Control Ltd. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.41.
PE Ratio
Ituran Location and Control Ltd. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.41. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.41 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 30.23%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter is 5.4% and a drop 1.6% for the next.
Moving Average
Ituran Location and Control Ltd.’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $27.04 and higher than its 200-day moving average of $27.06.
7. Northrim BanCorp (NRIM)
5.1% sales growth and 12.4% return on equity
Northrim BanCorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Northrim Bank that provides commercial banking products and services to businesses and professional individuals. It operates in two segments, Community Banking and Home Mortgage Lending. The company offers noninterest-bearing checking accounts and interest-bearing time deposits, checking and savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, money market deposit accounts, and certificates of deposit. It also provides family residential mortgages; commercial loans, such as secured and unsecured loans for working capital and expansion; commercial real estate loans; construction loans for commercial real estate projects, and land development and residential subdivision construction loans; and loans for automobiles, recreational vehicles, boats, and other consumer purchases, as well as home equity and commercial credit lines, and factoring services. In addition, the company offers other services that include consumer online banking, mobile app and mobile deposit, mobile Web and text banking, business online banking, personal finance, online documents, consumer and business debit cards, home equity advantage access cards, and telebanking and automated teller services. Further, it provides personalized checks, overdraft protection from savings accounts, commercial drive-up banking, automatic transfers and payments, people pay, external and wire transfers, bill pay, direct payroll deposits, electronic tax payments, automated clearing house origination and receipt, remote deposit capture, and account reconciliation and positive pay services, as well as merchant and cash management programs, annuity products, and long term investment portfolios. As of December 31, 2020, the company operated 16 branches in Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Juneau, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, Sitka, and Kenai Peninsula. Northrim BanCorp, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Northrim BanCorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.13.
PE Ratio
Northrim BanCorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 10.96. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $10.96 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 12.4%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 15.4%, now sitting on 130.35M for the twelve trailing months.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Northrim BanCorp is 10696 which is 0.75% below its average volume of 10777.
Sales Growth
Northrim BanCorp’s sales growth is 7% for the ongoing quarter and 5.1% for the next.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Mar 6, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 2.44 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 4.34%.
