(VIANEWS) – CoStar Group (CSGP), Ares Capital (ARCC), Addus HomeCare Corporation (ADUS) 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. CoStar Group (CSGP)
12% sales growth and 5.27% return on equity
CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate, hospitality, residential, and related professionals industries in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company offers CoStar Property that provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and student housing properties and land; CoStar Sales, a robust database of comparable commercial real estate sales transactions; CoStar Market Analytics to view and report on aggregated market and submarket trends; and CoStar Tenant, an online business-to-business prospecting and analytical tool that provides tenant information. It also provides Leasing, a tool to capture, manage, and maintain lease data; CoStar Lease Analysis; Public Record, a searchable database of commercially zoned parcels; CoStar Real Estate Manager, a real estate lease administration, portfolio management, and lease accounting compliance software solution; and CoStar Risk Analytics and CoStar Investment. In addition, it offers apartment marketing sites, such as ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, WestsideRentals.com, AFTER55.com, CorporateHousing.com, ForRentUniversity.com, Apartamentos.com, and Off Campus Partners; LoopNet Premium Lister; LoopNet Diamond, Platinum, and Gold Ads; LandsofAmerica.com, LandAndFarm.com, and LandWatch.com for rural land for-sale; BizBuySell.com, BizQuest.com, and FindaFranchise.com for operating businesses and franchises for-sale; Ten-X, an online auction platform for commercial real estate; and HomeSnap, an online and mobile software platform, as well as Homes.com, a homes for sale listings site. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, CoStar Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.92.
PE Ratio
CoStar Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 98.2. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $98.2 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 5.27%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
CoStar Group’s EBITDA is 12.65.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is a negative 79.3% and a negative 67.7%, respectively.
2. Ares Capital (ARCC)
9.9% sales growth and 14.67% return on equity
Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 million in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ares Capital has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.68.
PE Ratio
Ares Capital has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 7.57. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $7.57 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 14.67%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 10.5%, now sitting on 2.61B for the twelve trailing months.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter is a negative 4.8% and positive 3.5% for the next.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Ares Capital’s EBITDA is 7.44.
3. Addus HomeCare Corporation (ADUS)
9.4% sales growth and 9.33% return on equity
Addus HomeCare Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides personal care services to elderly, chronically ill, disabled persons, and individuals who are at risk of hospitalization or institutionalization in the United States. It operates through three segments: Personal Care, Hospice, and Home Health. The Personal Care segment provides non-medical assistance with activities of daily living. This segment offers services that include assistance with bathing, grooming, oral care, feeding and dressing, medication reminders, meal planning and preparation, housekeeping, and transportation services. The Hospice segment provides palliative nursing care, social work, spiritual counseling, homemaker, and bereavement counseling services for people who are terminally ill, as well as related services for their families. The Home Health segment offers skilled nursing and physical, occupational, and speech therapy for the individuals who requires assistance during an illness or after hospitalization. The company's payor clients include federal, state, and local governmental agencies; managed care organizations; commercial insurers; and private individuals. Addus HomeCare Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Addus HomeCare Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.83.
PE Ratio
Addus HomeCare Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.82. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.82 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 9.33%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Addus HomeCare Corporation is 4044 which is 96.49% below its average volume of 115252.
4. Diamondback Energy (FANG)
8.1% sales growth and 20.15% return on equity
Diamondback Energy, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company, acquires, develops, explores, and exploits unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas. It focuses on the development of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations of the Midland basin; and the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations of the Delaware basin, which are part of the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico. The company also owns and operates midstream infrastructure assets, in the Midland and Delaware Basins of the Permian Basin. Diamondback Energy, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Diamondback Energy has a trailing twelve months EPS of $17.35.
PE Ratio
Diamondback Energy has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.89. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.89 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 20.15%.
Moving Average
Diamondback Energy’s value is way above its 50-day moving average of $162.78 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $151.70.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Diamondback Energy is 1464890 which is 19.73% below its average volume of 1825000.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Mar 4, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 8.12 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 4.43%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Diamondback Energy’s stock is valued at $206.34 at 06:22 EST, way higher than its 52-week high of $185.78.
5. Regional Management Corp. (RM)
7.1% sales growth and 5.06% return on equity
Regional Management Corp., a diversified consumer finance company, provides various installment loan products primarily to customers with limited access to consumer credit from banks, thrifts, credit card companies, and other lenders in the United States. It offers small and large installment loans; and retail loans to finance the purchase of furniture, appliances, and other retail products. The company also provides insurance products, including credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, vehicle single interest, and credit involuntary unemployment insurance; collateral protection insurance; and property insurance, as well as reinsurance products. In addition, its loans are sourced through branches, centrally managed direct mail campaigns, digital partners, and retailers, as well as its consumer website. As of February 24, 2022, the company operated through a network of approximately 350 branches in 14 states. Regional Management Corp. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Greer, South Carolina.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Regional Management Corp. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.66.
PE Ratio
Regional Management Corp. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 14.86. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $14.86 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 5.06%.
Sales Growth
Regional Management Corp.’s sales growth is 3.5% for the present quarter and 7.1% for the next.
Moving Average
Regional Management Corp.’s value is above its 50-day moving average of $23.67 and below its 200-day moving average of $26.14.
Previous days news about Regional Management Corp.(RM)
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6. Chimera Investment Corporation (CIM)
7% sales growth and 4.83% return on equity
Chimera Investment Corporation operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company, through its subsidiaries, invests in a portfolio of mortgage assets, including residential mortgage loans, agency and non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities, agency mortgage-backed securities secured by pools of commercial mortgage loans, and other real estate related securities. It has elected to be taxed as a REIT and would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Chimera Investment Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.23.
PE Ratio
Chimera Investment Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 19.52. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $19.52 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 4.83%.
Moving Average
Chimera Investment Corporation’s worth is below its 50-day moving average of $4.55 and way under its 200-day moving average of $5.18.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Dec 28, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.7 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 15.42%.
