(VIANEWS) – Booking Holdings (BKNG), Euroseas Ltd. (ESEA), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) 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. Booking Holdings (BKNG)
31.1% sales growth and 52.98% return on equity
Booking Holdings Inc. provides travel and restaurant online reservation and related services worldwide. The company operates Booking.com, which offers online accommodation reservations; Rentalcars.com that provides online rental car reservation services; Priceline, which offer online travel reservation services, and consumers hotel, flight, and rental car reservation services, as well as vacation packages, cruises, and hotel distribution services. It also operates Agoda that provides online accommodation reservation services, as well as flight, ground transportation and activities reservation services. In addition, the company operates KAYAK, an online price comparison service that allows consumers to search and compare travel itineraries and prices, comprising airline ticket, accommodation reservation, and rental car reservation information; and OpenTable for booking online restaurant reservations. Further, it offers travel-related insurance products, and restaurant management services to consumers, travel service providers, and restaurants. The company was formerly known as The Priceline Group Inc. and changed its name to Booking Holdings Inc. in February 2018. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Booking Holdings has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.44.
PE Ratio
Booking Holdings has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 1740.55. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $1740.55 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 52.98%.
Sales Growth
Booking Holdings’s sales growth is 37.7% for the current quarter and 31.1% for the next.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 32.3% and 48.3%, respectively.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Booking Holdings’s stock is valued at $2,506.40 at 19:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $2,715.66 and way above its 52-week low of $1,616.85.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 29.4%, now sitting on 16.02B for the twelve trailing months.
2. Euroseas Ltd. (ESEA)
21.8% sales growth and 102.39% return on equity
Euroseas Ltd. provides ocean-going transportation services worldwide. The company owns and operates containerships that transport dry and refrigerated containerized cargoes, including manufactured products and perishables. As of May 03, 2022, it had a fleet of 18 vessels, including 10 feeder and 8 intermediate containerships with a cargo capacity of approximately 58,871 twenty-foot equivalent unit (teu). The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Marousi, Greece.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Euroseas Ltd. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.58.
PE Ratio
Euroseas Ltd. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 34.33. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $34.33 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 102.39%.
3. NXP Semiconductors (NXPI)
12.7% sales growth and 39.05% return on equity
NXP Semiconductors N.V. offers various semiconductor products. The company's product portfolio includes microcontrollers; application processors, including i.MX application processors, and i.MX 8 and 9 family of applications processors; communication processors; wireless connectivity solutions, such as near field communications, ultra-wideband, Bluetooth low-energy, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth integrated SoCs; analog and interface devices; radio frequency power amplifiers; and security controllers, as well as semiconductor-based environmental and inertial sensors, including pressure, inertial, magnetic, and gyroscopic sensors. The company's product solutions are used in a range of applications, including automotive, industrial and Internet of Things, mobile, and communication infrastructure. The company markets its products to various original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors. It operates in China, the Netherlands, the United States, Singapore, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and internationally. The company was formerly known as KASLION Acquisition B.V and changed its name to NXP Semiconductors N.V. in May 2010. NXP Semiconductors N.V. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, NXP Semiconductors has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.5.
PE Ratio
NXP Semiconductors has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 127.32. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $127.32 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 39.05%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 27.8% and 11.9%, respectively.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Mar 13, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 4.06 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 2.16%.
Moving Average
NXP Semiconductors’s value is way higher than its 50-day moving average of $170.70 and way above its 200-day moving average of $167.27.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
NXP Semiconductors’s stock is valued at $191.24 at 19:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $200.64 and way higher than its 52-week low of $132.08.
4. Apache (APA)
5.9% sales growth and 373.66% return on equity
APA Corporation, through its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, and produces oil and gas properties. It has operations in the United States, Egypt, and the United Kingdom, as well as has exploration activities offshore Suriname. The company also operates gathering, processing, and transmission assets in West Texas, as well as holds ownership in four Permian-to-Gulf Coast pipelines. APA Corporation was founded in 1954 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Apache has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-12.86.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 373.66%.
Previous days news about Apache(APA)
- According to VentureBeat on Tuesday, 14 February, "The project got its start in 2020, originally as a fork of the open-source Apache Doris analytics database.", "There is also the Apache Pinot analytics database project, which is backed by commercial vendor StarTree, and raised $47 million in August 2022."
- According to VentureBeat on Wednesday, 15 February, "According to Flynn, MLops organizations should leverage their models to not only make better decisions, but also to optimize these models for different hardware profiles – for example, using technology like the Apache TVM (Tensor Virtual Machine) to compile models to run more efficiently on different cloud providers and across devices with varying hardware (CPU, GPU and or FPGAs). "
- According to VentureBeat on Thursday, 16 February, "Ransomware groups can use kill chains to exploit vulnerabilities that span 81 products from vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, F5, VMWare, Atlassian, Apache and SonicWall.", "Another Apache Log4j vulnerability, CVE-2021-45105, is present in 128 products from 11 vendors and is also exploited by AvosLocker ransomware."
