(VIANEWS) – East West Bancorp (EWBC), XP (XP), Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (ARLP) 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. East West Bancorp (EWBC)
31% sales growth and 19.08% return on equity
East West Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for East West Bank that provides a range of personal and commercial banking services to businesses and individuals. It operates through three segments: Consumer and Business Banking, Commercial Banking, and Other. The company accepts various deposit products, such as personal and business checking and savings accounts, money market, and time deposits. Its loan products include mortgage and home equity, commercial and residential real estate, working capital lines of credit, construction, trade finance, letters of credit, commercial business, affordable housing loans, asset-based lending, asset-backed finance, project finance, and equipment financing, as well as financing services to clients needing a financial bridge to facilitate their business transactions between the United States and China. The company also provides various wealth management, treasury management, foreign exchange, and interest rate and commodity risk hedging services; and mobile and online banking services. As of January 27, 2022, it operated approximately 120 locations in the United States and China; full-service branches in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shantou, and Shenzhen; and representative offices in Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Taipei, and Xiamen. East West Bancorp, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, East West Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $7.97.
PE Ratio
East West Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 9.64. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $9.64 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 19.08%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for East West Bancorp is 577851 which is 33.15% below its average volume of 864485.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 27.5%, now sitting on 2.16B for the twelve trailing months.
Previous days news about East West Bancorp(EWBC)
- : east west bancorp says ‘liquidity is strong,’ but stock suffering biggest selloff since the financial crisis. According to MarketWatch on Monday, 13 March, "Shares of East West Bancorp Inc. EWBC plummeted 23.2% in morning trading Monday, toward their second-biggest one-day selloff, in the wake of recent bank failures, prompting the Pasadena, Calif.-based bank to reiterate its "capital and balance sheet strength." The stock, which has now sunk 33.9% in three days, since SVB Financial Group’s SIVB troubles became public, was headed for the lowest close since December 2020. "
2. XP (XP)
19.4% sales growth and 24.52% return on equity
XP Inc. provides financial products and services in Brazil. It offers securities brokerage, private pension plans, commercial, and investment banking products, such as loan operations and transactions in the foreign exchange markets and deposits; product structuring and capital markets services for corporate clients and issuers of fixed income products; advisory services for mass-affluent and institutional clients; and wealth management services for high-net-worth customers and institutional clients. The company also offers Xpeed, an online financial education portal that offers seminars, classes, and learning tools to help teach individuals on topics, such as basics of investing, techniques, and investment strategies, as well as insurance brokerage services. In addition, it operates XP Platform, an open product platform that provides clients to access investment products in the market, including equity and fixed income securities, mutual and hedge funds, private equity, structured products, credit cards, loan operations, life insurance, pension plans, real-estate investment funds, and others. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, XP has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.99.
PE Ratio
XP has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.11. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.11 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 24.52%.
Sales Growth
XP’s sales growth is 13.1% for the present quarter and 19.4% for the next.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 11.9%, now sitting on 13.12B for the twelve trailing months.
3. Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (ARLP)
12.3% sales growth and 40.39% return on equity
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., a diversified natural resource company, produces and markets coal primarily to utilities and industrial users in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Illinois Basin Coal Operations, Appalachia Coal Operations, Oil & Gas Royalties, and Coal Royalties. It produces a range of thermal and metallurgical coal with sulfur and heat contents. The company operates seven underground mining complexes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. In addition, it leases land and operates a coal loading terminal on the Ohio River at Mt. Vernon, Indiana; and buys and resells coal, as well as owns mineral and royalty interests in approximately 1.5 million gross acres of oil and gas producing regions primarily in the Permian, Anadarko, and Williston Basins. Further, the company offers various mining technology products and services, including data network, communication and tracking systems, mining proximity detection systems, industrial collision avoidance systems, and data and analytics software. As of December 31, 2021, it had approximately 547.1 million tons of proven and probable coal mineral reserves, as well as 1.17 billion tons of measured, indicated, and inferred coal mineral resources in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.32.
PE Ratio
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 4.75. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $4.75 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 40.39%.
4. SB Financial Group (SBFG)
11.5% sales growth and 9.51% return on equity
SB Financial Group, Inc. provides a range of commercial banking and wealth management services to individual and corporate customers primarily in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. It offers checking, savings, money market accounts, as well as time certificates of deposit; and commercial, consumer, agricultural, and residential mortgage loans. The company also provides automatic teller machine, personal and corporate trust, commercial leasing, bank credit card, safe deposit box rental, internet banking, private client group, and other personalized banking products and services; and various trust and financial services comprising asset management services for individuals and corporate employee benefit plans, as well as brokerage services. In addition, it sells insurance products to retail and commercial customers. As of December 31, 2021, the company operated a network of 22 banking centers in the Ohio counties of Allen, Defiance, Franklin, Fulton, Hancock, Lucas, Paulding, Wood, and Williams; and one banking center in Allen County, Indiana. It also operated five loan production offices in Franklin and Lucas Counties, Ohio; Hamilton and Steuben Counties, Indiana; and Monroe County, Michigan. The company was formerly known as Rurban Financial Corp. and changed its name to SB Financial Group, Inc. in April 2013. SB Financial Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Defiance, Ohio.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, SB Financial Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.77.
PE Ratio
SB Financial Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 9.5. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $9.5 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 9.51%.
Moving Average
SB Financial Group’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $16.73 and under its 200-day moving average of $17.09.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for SB Financial Group is 1941 which is 38.71% below its average volume of 3167.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth declined by 3.7%, now sitting on 56.35M for the twelve trailing months.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
SB Financial Group’s stock is valued at $16.82 at 11:22 EST, way below its 52-week high of $20.85 and higher than its 52-week low of $16.28.
5. Global Self Storage (SELF)
11.2% sales growth and 6.31% return on equity
Global Self Storage is a self-administered and self-managed REIT that owns, operates, manages, acquires, develops and redevelops self-storage properties. The company's self-storage properties are designed to offer affordable, easily accessible and secure storage space for residential and commercial customers. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the company owns and/or manages 13 self-storage properties in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Global Self Storage has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.03.
PE Ratio
Global Self Storage has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 183.33. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $183.33 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 6.31%.
Sales Growth
Global Self Storage’s sales growth is 8.4% for the present quarter and 11.2% for the next.
Moving Average
Global Self Storage’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $5.21 and higher than its 200-day moving average of $5.49.
6. Stryker Corp (SYK)
7.1% sales growth and 14.98% return on equity
Stryker Corporation operates as a medical technology company. The company operates through two segments, MedSurg and Neurotechnology, and Orthopaedics and Spine. The Orthopaedics and Spine segment provides implants for use in hip and knee joint replacements, and trauma and extremities surgeries. This segment also offers spinal implant products comprising cervical, thoracolumbar, and interbody systems that are used in spinal injury, deformity, and degenerative therapies. The MedSurg and Neurotechnology segment offers surgical equipment and surgical navigation systems, endoscopic and communications systems, patient handling, emergency medical equipment and intensive care disposable products, reprocessed and remanufactured medical devices, and other medical device products that are used in various medical specialties. This segment also provides neurotechnology products, which include products used for minimally invasive endovascular techniques; products for brain and open skull based surgical procedures; orthobiologic and biosurgery products, such as synthetic bone grafts and vertebral augmentation products; minimally invasive products for the treatment of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke; and craniomaxillofacial implant products, including cranial, maxillofacial, and chest wall devices, as well as dural substitutes and sealants. The company sells its products to doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities through company-owned subsidiaries and branches, as well as third-party dealers and distributors in approximately 75 countries. Stryker Corporation was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Stryker Corp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.69.
PE Ratio
Stryker Corp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 73.6. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $73.6 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 14.98%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Stryker Corp is 609393 which is 54.02% below its average volume of 1325560.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 10.7%, now sitting on 18.45B for the twelve trailing months.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Stryker Corp’s stock is valued at $271.57 at 11:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $284.00 and way higher than its 52-week low of $188.84.
7. Enersys (ENS)
5.8% sales growth and 9.08% return on equity
EnerSys provides various stored energy solutions for industrial applications worldwide. It operates in three segments: Energy Systems, Motive Power, and Specialty. The company offers uninterruptible power systems applications for computer and computer-controlled systems, as well as telecommunications systems; switchgear and electrical control systems used in industrial facilities and electric utilities, large-scale energy storage, and energy pipelines; integrated power solutions and services to broadband, telecom, renewable, and industrial customers; and thermally managed cabinets and enclosures for electronic equipment and batteries. It also provides motive power products that are used to provide power for electric industrial forklifts used in manufacturing, warehousing, and other material handling applications. In addition, the company offers mining equipment, diesel locomotive starting, and other rail equipment. Further, it provides specialty batteries for starting, lighting, and ignition applications in transportation; and energy solutions for satellites, military aircraft, submarines, ships, and other tactical vehicles, as well as medical and security systems. Additionally, the company offers battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories, and outdoor cabinet enclosures, as well as related after-market and customer-support services for industrial batteries. The company sells its products through a network of distributors, independent representatives, and internal sales forces. The company was formerly known as Yuasa, Inc. and changed its name to EnerSys in January 2001. EnerSys was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Enersys has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.33.
PE Ratio
Enersys has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.1. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.1 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 9.08%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 15% and 16.5%, respectively.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 9%, now sitting on 3.63B for the twelve trailing months.
