(VIANEWS) – Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (CORT), Itron (ITRI), Getty Realty Corporation (GTY) 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. Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (CORT)
21.6% sales growth and 19.55% return on equity
Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated discovers, develops, and commercializes drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, oncologic, and psychiatric disorders in the United States. The company offers Korlym (mifepristone) tablets as a once-daily oral medication for the treatment of hyperglycemia secondary to hypercortisolism in adult patients with endogenous Cushing's syndrome, who have type 2 diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance, and have failed surgery or are not candidates for surgery. It is developing relacorilant to treat patients with Cushing's syndrome; and nab-paclitaxel in combination with relacorilant, which has completed Phase II clinical trial to treat patients with serous ovarian tumors, as well as in Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of solid tumors. The company is also developing selective cortisol modulator combined with Xtandi that is in open label dose finding trial to treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer; selective cortisol modulator for the treatment of antipsychotic-induced weight gain; and FKBP5 gene expression assays. Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.8.
PE Ratio
Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 33.42. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $33.42 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 19.55%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated’s EBITDA is 5.4.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 78.6% and 64.3%, respectively.
2. Itron (ITRI)
16.4% sales growth and 6.35% return on equity
Itron, Inc., a technology and service company, provides end-to-end solutions that help manage operations in the energy, water, and smart city space worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Device Solutions, Networked Solutions, and Outcomes. The Device Solutions segment offers hardware products that are used for measurement, control, or sensing. The Networked Solutions segment provides a combination of communicating devices, such as smart meters, modules, endpoints, and sensors; network infrastructure; and associated application software for acquiring and transporting application-specific data. The Outcomes segment offers enhanced software and services for managing, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data to enhance decision making, maximize operational profitability, drive resource efficiency, and deliver results for consumers, utilities, and smart cities. In addition, it offers implementation, project management, installation, consulting, and post-sale maintenance support services, as well as cloud and software-as-a-service; and extended or customer-specific warranties. It offers its products and services under the Itron brand. The company markets its products directly through its sales force, as well as through indirect sales force consisting of distributors, sales representatives, partners, and meter manufacturer representatives to utilities and municipalities. Itron, Inc. was incorporated in 1977 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Itron has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.64.
PE Ratio
Itron has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 42.82. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $42.82 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 6.35%.
3. Getty Realty Corporation (GTY)
13.5% sales growth and 8.46% return on equity
Getty Realty Corp. is the leading publicly traded real estate investment trust in the United States specializing in the ownership, leasing and financing of convenience store and gasoline station properties. As of September 30, 2020, the Company owned 896 properties and leased 58 properties from third-party landlords in 35 states across the United States and Washington, D.C.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Getty Realty Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.42.
PE Ratio
Getty Realty Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 20.83. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $20.83 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 8.46%.
4. Perion Network Ltd (PERI)
12.3% sales growth and 19.25% return on equity
Perion Network Ltd. provides digital advertising solutions to brands, agencies, and publishers in North America, Europe, and internationally. It provides Wildfire, a content monetization platform; search monetization solutions, including website monetization, search mediation, and app monetization; and cross-channel digital advertising software as a service platform. The company also offers supply management platform; demand management platform for campaign planning and design; analytics platform, which provides information and performance insights on the results of campaign investment and other campaign metrics; creative platform to create advertisements; and an AI platform that uses machine learning to bring intelligence to the various phases of campaigns. In addition, it provides an actionable performance monitoring platform to support the various phases of campaign management; an online video player and integrated ad server to upload, manage, and stream video content; content monetization system, which integrates ads within the content layouts at the page level. Further, the company offers a publisher management system that provides analytics and performance optimization tools, as well as reports; search-demand management systems; monetization products that integrate and onboards demand vendors; and AI Systems. Additionally, it provides Intelligent HUB (iHUB), a platform for pulling in signals across various advertising channels and optimizing traffic at scale, and yielding engagement metrics and KPIs; and strategic optimization of relevant traits (SORT), a provisional patent technology that eliminates the need for cookies. The company was formerly known as IncrediMail Ltd. and changed its name to Perion Network Ltd. in November 2011. Perion Network Ltd. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Holon, Israel.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Perion Network Ltd has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.36.
PE Ratio
Perion Network Ltd has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.81. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.81 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 19.25%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Perion Network Ltd’s EBITDA is 1.11.
Moving Average
Perion Network Ltd’s value is above its 50-day moving average of $27.82 and way below its 200-day moving average of $32.69.
5. Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST)
7.9% sales growth and 5.3% return on equity
Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a restaurant company in the United States. The company operates as a Burger King franchisee. As of January 3, 2021, it operated 1,009 Burger King restaurants located in 23 Northeastern, Midwestern, Southcentral, and Southeastern states; and 65 Popeyes restaurants in seven Southeastern states. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Syracuse, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Carrols Restaurant Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.06.
PE Ratio
Carrols Restaurant Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 130.67. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $130.67 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 5.3%.
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6. ANSYS (ANSS)
7.2% sales growth and 10.13% return on equity
ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services worldwide. It offers ANSYS Workbench, a framework upon which its multiphysics engineering simulation technologies are built and enables engineers to simulate the interactions between structures, heat transfer, fluids, electronics, and optical elements in a unified engineering simulation environment; high-performance computing product suite and the cloud; power analysis and optimization software suite that manages the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design; and structural analysis product suite that provides simulation tools for product design and optimization. The company also provides electronics product suite that offers electromagnetic field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; SCADE product suite, a solution for embedded software simulation, code production, and automated certification; fluids product suite that enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; Ansys Granta products to give access to material intelligence; photonic design and simulation tools; and optical sensor and closed-loop, and real-time simulation, as well as safety-certified embedded software solutions. In addition, the company provides Discovery product family for use in the simulation of product design; and academic product suite used in research and teaching settings, which allows students to become familiar with its simulation software. It serves engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the aerospace and defense, automotive, construction, consumer products, energy, healthcare, high-tech, industrial equipment, and materials and chemical processing industries. ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ANSYS has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.52.
PE Ratio
ANSYS has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 59.83. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $59.83 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 10.13%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
ANSYS’s stock is valued at $330.27 at 19:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $363.86 and way higher than its 52-week low of $230.00.
Sales Growth
ANSYS’s sales growth is 15.5% for the current quarter and 7.2% for the next.
7. Surgery Partners (SGRY)
6.9% sales growth and 3.88% return on equity
Surgery Partners, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates a network of surgical facilities and ancillary services in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Surgical Facility Services and Ancillary Services. Its surgical facilities comprise ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals that offer non-emergency surgical procedures in various specialties, including gastroenterology, general surgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and pain management. The company's surgical hospitals also provide ancillary services, such as diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, laboratory, obstetrics, oncology, physical therapy, and wound care; and ancillary services, which consist of multi-specialty physician practices, urgent care facilities, and anesthesia services. As of December 31, 2021, it owned or operated a portfolio of 126 surgical facilities, including 108 ambulatory surgical centers and 18 surgical hospitals in 31 states. Surgery Partners, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Surgery Partners has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-0.33.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 3.88%.
8. America Movil (AMX)
5.6% sales growth and 20.05% return on equity
América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. provides telecommunications services in Latin America and internationally. The company offers wireless and fixed voice services, including airtime, local, domestic, and international long-distance services; and network interconnection services. It also provides data services, such as data centers, data administration, and hosting services to residential and corporate clients; value-added services, including Internet access, messaging and other wireless entertainment, and corporate services; data transmission, email services, instant messaging, content streaming, and interactive applications; and wireless security services, mobile payment solutions, machine-to-machine services, mobile banking, virtual private network services, and video calls and personal communications services. In addition, the company offers residential broadband services; IT solutions to small businesses and large corporations; and cable and satellite television subscriptions. Further, it sells equipment, accessories, and computers; and offers telephone directories, wireless security, call center, advertising, media, and software development services. Additionally, the company provides video, audio, and other media content through the Internet directly from the content provider to the end user. It sells its products and services under the Telcel, Telmex Infinitum, and A1 brands through a network of retailers and service centers to retail customers; and through sales force to corporate customers. América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, America Movil has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.51.
PE Ratio
America Movil has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.36. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.36 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 20.05%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is a negative 8.1% and a negative 33.3%, respectively.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Nov 8, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.53 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 2.88%.
Moving Average
America Movil’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $17.64 and below its 200-day moving average of $19.72.
