(VIANEWS) – Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares (EGO), Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP), Meta Platforms (META) 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. Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares (EGO)
36.4% sales growth and 3.56% return on equity
Eldorado Gold Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the exploration, discovery, acquisition, financing, development, production, sale, and reclamation of mineral products, primarily in Turkey, Canada, Greece, Brazil, and Romania. The company primarily produces gold, as well as silver, lead, zinc, and iron ore. It operates five mines: Kisladag and Efemcukuru located in western Turkey, Lamaque in Canada, and Olympias and Stratoni located in northern Greece. The company was formerly known as Eldorado Corporation Ltd. and changed its name to Eldorado Gold Corporation in April 1996. Eldorado Gold Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.61.
PE Ratio
Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.95. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.95 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 3.56%.
Sales Growth
Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares’s sales growth is 17.4% for the ongoing quarter and 36.4% for the next.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares is 1250530 which is 8.56% below its average volume of 1367610.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 188.9% and 82.4%, respectively.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Eldorado Gold Corporation Ordinary Shares’s stock is valued at $16.44 at 01:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $17.28 and way above its 52-week low of $8.30.
2. Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP)
19.4% sales growth and 6.73% return on equity
Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as the bank holding company for Pinnacle Bank that provides various banking products and services in the United States. The company accepts various deposits, including savings, checking, noninterest-bearing and interest-bearing checking, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts. Its loan products include commercial loans, such as equipment and working capital loans; commercial real estate loans comprising investment properties and business loans secured by real estate; and loans to individuals consisting of secured and unsecured installment and term loans, lines of credit, residential first mortgage loans, and home equity loans and lines of credit, as well as provides credit cards for consumers and businesses. The company also offers various securities and other financial products; investment products; brokerage and investment advisory programs; and fiduciary and investment management services, such as personal trust, endowments, foundations, individual retirement accounts, pensions, and custody. In addition, it provides insurance agency services primarily in the property and casualty area; merger and acquisition advisory services; and private debt, equity and mezzanine, and other middle-market advisory services. Further, the company offers treasury management, telephone and online banking, mobile banking, debit cards, direct deposit and remote deposit capture, mobile deposit option, automated teller machine, and cash management services. It serves individuals, small to medium-sized businesses, and professional entities. As of December 31, 2020, the company operated 114 offices, including 48 in Tennessee, 36 in North Carolina, 20 in South Carolina, 9 in Virginia, and 1 in Georgia. Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Pinnacle Financial Partners has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.05.
PE Ratio
Pinnacle Financial Partners has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 19.37. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $19.37 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 6.73%.
Moving Average
Pinnacle Financial Partners’s worth is way higher than its 50-day moving average of $81.72 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $79.94.
3. Meta Platforms (META)
14.8% sales growth and 35.37% return on equity
Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and wearables worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment offers Facebook, which enables people to share, discuss, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately. The Reality Labs segment provides augmented and virtual reality related products comprising consumer hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, anytime, and anywhere. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Meta Platforms has a trailing twelve months EPS of $14.86.
PE Ratio
Meta Platforms has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 34.45. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $34.45 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 35.37%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Meta Platforms’s stock is valued at $511.90 at 01:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $542.81 and way higher than its 52-week low of $274.38.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 22.1%, now sitting on 149.78B for the twelve trailing months.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter and the next is 29.5% and 17.8%, respectively.
Sales Growth
Meta Platforms’s sales growth is 19.5% for the ongoing quarter and 14.8% for the next.
Previous days news about Meta Platforms(META)
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4. NICE Ltd (NICE)
14.4% sales growth and 11.16% return on equity
NICE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud platforms for AI-driven digital business solutions worldwide. It offers CXone, a cloud native open platform; Enlighten, an AI engine for the customer engagement market; and smart self service enable organizations to address consumers' needs; and journey orchestration solutions that empower organizations to connect and route customers to deal with the customer's request, and connects them using real time AI-based routing. The company provides smart self service solutions that empower organizations to build intelligent automated conversations based on data; and prepared agent solutions and tools enable contact center agents to guide and alert them in real time; provides solutions that help organizations to record structured and unstructured customer interaction and transaction data; and NICE Evidencentral, an digital evidence management platform for public safety emergency communications, law enforcement, and criminal justice helps agencies. In addition, it offers X-Sight, is an open and flexible AI-cloud platform for financial crime and compliance; Xceed, a cloud platform for comprehensive AML and fraud prevention for small and mid-sized organizations; data intelligence solutions that enable organizations to turn raw data into comprehensive actionable intelligence to prevent and detect financial crimes; AI and analytics technologies to detect and prevent financial crimes in real-time; money laundering and fraud prevention solutions that help organizations adhere to capital markets compliance and anti-money laundering compliance regulations; intelligent investigations solutions; and self-service solutions that provide organizations with customization and self-development capabilities. The company was formerly known as NICE-Systems Ltd. and changed its name to NICE Ltd. in June 2016. NICE Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, NICE Ltd has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.11.
PE Ratio
NICE Ltd has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 45.4. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $45.4 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 11.16%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 15.3%, now sitting on 2.46B for the twelve trailing months.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 21.1% and 18.5%, respectively.
Moving Average
NICE Ltd’s value is way higher than its 50-day moving average of $175.28 and way above its 200-day moving average of $202.71.
5. The Ensign Group (ENSG)
10.5% sales growth and 14.78% return on equity
The Ensign Group, Inc. provides health care services in the post-acute care continuum and other ancillary businesses. The company operates in two segments, Skilled Services and Real Estate. The company offers skilled services, which include short and long-term nursing care services for patients with chronic conditions, prolonged illness, and the elderly; and physical, occupational, and speech therapies and other rehabilitative and healthcare services. It also provides standard services, such as room and board, special nutritional programs, social, recreational, entertainment, and other services. In addition, the company offers senior living, as well as mobile diagnostics services; leases real estate properties; and provides other ancillary services consisting of digital x-ray, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, laboratory, sub-acute, and patient transportation services to people in their homes or at long-term care facilities. As of April 4, 2022, it operated 252 healthcare facilities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, The Ensign Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.79.
PE Ratio
The Ensign Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 37.68. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $37.68 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 14.78%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
The Ensign Group’s stock is valued at $142.80 at 01:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $143.85 and way above its 52-week low of $90.00.
6. Synopsys (SNPS)
8.4% sales growth and 21.58% return on equity
Synopsys, Inc. provides electronic design automation software products used to design and test integrated circuits. It operates in three segments: Design Automation, Design IP, and Software Integrity. The company offers Digital and Custom IC Design solution that provides digital design implementation solutions; Verification solution that offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug solutions; and FPGA design products that are programmed to perform specific functions. It also provides intellectual property (IP) solutions for USB, PCI Express, DDR, Ethernet, MIPI, HDMI, and Bluetooth low energy applications; logic libraries and embedded memories; processor cores, software, and application-specific instruction-set processor tools for embedded applications; security IP solutions; IP solutions for automotive market; and system-on-chip (SoC) infrastructure IP, datapath and building block IP, and verification IP products, as well as mathematical and floating-point components, and Arm AMBA interconnect fabric and peripherals. In addition, the company offers HAPS FPGA-based prototyping systems; virtual prototyping solutions; and Platform Architect solutions for SoC architecture analysis and optimization, as well as optical products, and mechatronic simulations. Further, it provides security and quality testing products, managed services, programs and professional services, and training that enable its customers to detect and remediate security vulnerabilities, and defects in the software development lifecycle, as well as manufacturing solutions. Additionally, the company provides intelligent orchestration solution, software risk manager, and black duck software composition analysis tools. It serves electronics, financial services, automotive, medicine, energy, and industrial areas. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Synopsys has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.04.
PE Ratio
Synopsys has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 61.63. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $61.63 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 21.58%.
7. Scorpio Tankers (STNG)
8% sales growth and 21.39% return on equity
Scorpio Tankers Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the seaborne transportation of crude oi and refined petroleum products in the shipping markets worldwide. As of March 21, 2024, its fleet consisted of 110 owned and leases financed tanker, including 39 LR2, 57 MR, and 14 Handymax with a weighted average age of approximately 8.1 years. Scorpio Tankers Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Monaco.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Scorpio Tankers has a trailing twelve months EPS of $10.87.
PE Ratio
Scorpio Tankers has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 7.04. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $7.04 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 21.39%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Scorpio Tankers is 740379 which is 2.51% below its average volume of 759500.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Scorpio Tankers’s stock is valued at $76.56 at 01:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $84.67 and way higher than its 52-week low of $42.09.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jun 14, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.6 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 2.09%.
8. FirstCash (FCFS)
6.9% sales growth and 12.24% return on equity
FirstCash Holdings, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates retail pawn stores in the United States, Mexico, and rest of Latin America. Its pawn stores lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property, including jewelry, electronics, tools, appliances, sporting goods, and musical instruments; and retails merchandise acquired through collateral forfeitures on forfeited pawn loans and over-the-counter purchases of merchandise directly from customers. The company is also involved in melting scrap jewelry, as well as sells gold, silver, and diamonds in commodity markets. As of December 31, 2021, it operated 1,081 stores in the United States and the District of Columbia; 1,656 stores in Mexico; 60 stores in Guatemala; 13 stores in El Salvador; and 15 stores in Colombia. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, FirstCash has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.22.
PE Ratio
FirstCash has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 21.43. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $21.43 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 12.24%.
Moving Average
FirstCash’s worth is above its 50-day moving average of $110.64 and under its 200-day moving average of $113.80.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for FirstCash is 482517 which is 74.83% above its average volume of 275979.
Sales Growth
FirstCash’s sales growth is 7.9% for the present quarter and 6.9% for the next.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Aug 15, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.52 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.35%.
