(VIANEWS) – BCB Bancorp (BCBP), ShotSpotter (SSTI), Cisco (CSCO) 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. BCB Bancorp (BCBP)
18.3% sales growth and 16.13% return on equity
BCB Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for BCB Community Bank that provides banking products and services to businesses and individuals in the United States. The company offers deposit products, including savings and club accounts, interest and non-interest-bearing demand accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. It also provides loans, such as commercial and multi-family real estate, one-to-four family mortgage, commercial business, small business administration, construction, home equity and lines of credit, and consumer loans, as well as residential loans secured by one-to-four family dwellings, condominiums, and cooperative units. In addition, the company offers retail and commercial banking services comprising wire transfers, money orders, safe deposit boxes, night depository services, debit cards, online and mobile banking services, fraud detection services, and automated teller services. As of December 31, 2021, it operated 29 branch offices in Bayonne, Carteret, Edison, Hoboken, Fairfield, Holmdel, Jersey City, Lyndhurst, Maplewood, Monroe Township, Newark, Parsippany, Plainsboro, River Edge, Rutherford, South Orange, Union, and Woodbridge, New Jersey, as well as three branches in Staten Island and Hicksville, New York. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, BCB Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.48.
PE Ratio
BCB Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 5.62. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $5.62 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 16.13%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for BCB Bancorp is 176936 which is 184.07% above its average volume of 62286.
2. ShotSpotter (SSTI)
16% sales growth and 13.48% return on equity
ShotSpotter, Inc. provides precision-policing and security solutions for law enforcement and security personnel in the United States, South Africa, and the Bahamas. Its solutions include ShotSpotter Respond, a public safety solution, which serves cities and municipalities to identify, locate, and deter gun violence by incorporating a real-time gunshot detection system into their policing systems; and ShotSpotter Connect, a patrol management software to help plan directed patrols and tactics to deter a broad set of crime types. The company also provides ShotSpotter SecureCampus and ShotSpotter SiteSecure that helps the law enforcement and security personnel serving universities, corporate campuses, big-box retail, malls, and key infrastructure or transportation centers to mitigate risk and enhance security by notifying authorities of a outdoor gunfire incident and saving minutes for first responders to arrive. In addition, it offers ShotSpotter Investigate, a cloud-based investigative platform to help law enforcement agencies modernize every phase of an investigation and accelerate case work with easy-to-use software tools. Further, it provides ShotSpotter Labs, a technology to adapt and extend commercial technology to address significant wildlife and environmental issues. The company sells its solutions through its direct sales teams. ShotSpotter, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ShotSpotter has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.58.
PE Ratio
ShotSpotter has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 62.84. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $62.84 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 13.48%.
Moving Average
ShotSpotter’s value is above its 50-day moving average of $35.28 and way above its 200-day moving average of $32.51.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for ShotSpotter is 55977 which is 126.62% above its average volume of 24700.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
ShotSpotter’s EBITDA is 5.33.
3. Cisco (CSCO)
14.3% sales growth and 27.72% return on equity
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company also offers switching portfolio encompasses campus switching as well as data center switching; enterprise routing portfolio interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering highly secure, and reliable connectivity to campus, data center and branch networks; wireless products include wireless access points that are standalone, controller appliance-based, switch-converged, and Meraki cloud-managed offerings; and compute portfolio including the cisco unified computing system, hyperflex, and software management capabilities, which combine computing, networking, and storage infrastructure management and virtualization. In addition, it provides Internet for the future product consists of routed optical networking, 5G, silicon, and optics solutions; collaboration products, such as meetings, collaboration devices, calling, contact center, and communication platform as a service; end-to-end security product consists of network security, cloud security, security endpoints, unified threat management, and zero trust; and optimized application experiences products including full stack observability and cloud-native platform. Further, the company offers a range of service and support options for its customers, including technical support and advanced services and advisory services. It serves businesses of various sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers. The company sells its products and services directly, as well as through systems integrators, service providers, other resellers, and distributors. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with other companies. Cisco Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Cisco has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.39.
PE Ratio
Cisco has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 21.2. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $21.2 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 27.72%.
Sales Growth
Cisco’s sales growth is 12.2% for the present quarter and 14.3% for the next.
Moving Average
Cisco’s value is above its 50-day moving average of $48.50 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $45.76.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jan 3, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.52 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.24%.
4. Lincoln Electric Holdings (LECO)
7.4% sales growth and 49.1% return on equity
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells welding, cutting, and brazing products worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Americas Welding, International Welding, and The Harris Products Group. It offers welding products, including arc welding power sources, plasma cutters, wire feeding systems, robotic welding packages, integrated automation systems, fume extraction equipment, consumable electrodes, fluxes and welding accessories, and specialty welding consumables and fabrication products. The company's product offering also includes computer numeric controlled plasma and oxy-fuel cutting systems, and regulators and torches used in oxy-fuel welding, cutting, and brazing; and consumables used in the brazing and soldering alloys market. In addition, it is involved in the retail business in the United States. Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. serves general fabrication, energy and process, automotive and transportation, and construction and infrastructure industries, as well as heavy fabrication, ship building, and maintenance and repair markets. The company sells its products directly to users of welding products, as well as through industrial distributors, retailers, and agents. Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Lincoln Electric Holdings has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.74.
PE Ratio
Lincoln Electric Holdings has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 42.94. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $42.94 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 49.1%.
