(VIANEWS) – HCI Group (HCI), Amazon (AMZN), Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC) 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. HCI Group (HCI)
26.6% sales growth and 18.24% return on equity
HCI Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, real estate, and information technology businesses in Florida. It provides residential insurance products, such as homeowners, fire, flood, and wind-only insurance to homeowners, condominium owners, and tenants for properties, as well as offers reinsurance programs. The company also owns and operates waterfront properties and retail shopping centers, and an office building, as well as commercial properties for investment purposes. In addition, it designs and develops web-based applications and products for mobile devices, including SAMS, an online policy administration platform; Harmony, a policy administration platform; ClaimColony, an end-to-end claims management platform; and AtlasViewer, a mapping and data visualization platform. The company was formerly known as Homeowners Choice, Inc. and changed its name to HCI Group, Inc. in May 2013. HCI Group, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, HCI Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.18.
PE Ratio
HCI Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 21.4. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $21.4 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 18.24%.
2. Amazon (AMZN)
24.8% sales growth and 12.53% return on equity
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. It operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company's products offered through its stores include merchandise and content purchased for resale; and products offered by third-party sellers. It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Rings, Blink, eero, and Echo; and develops and produces media content. In addition, the company offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products in its stores; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, it provides compute, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, and other services, as well as fulfillment, advertising, and digital content subscriptions. Additionally, the company offers Amazon Prime, a membership program. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, content creators, and advertisers. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Amazon has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.9.
PE Ratio
Amazon has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 80.98. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $80.98 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 12.53%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 12.6%, now sitting on 554.03B for the twelve trailing months.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is 2533.3% and 122.6%, respectively.
Previous days news about Amazon(AMZN)
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 17 January, "Alphabet’s growing efforts to boost its Google TV offerings will enable this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company to compete well against some notable industry players like Apple, Amazon and Roku (ROKU Quick QuoteROKU – Free Report) , which are also making concerted efforts to gain a solid footing in the streaming devices market. "
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 17 January, "This partnership with Amazon streamlines payment procedures for banks and offers scalability, ISO 20022 standards compliance, and cloud-based delivery.", "Aligning with this commitment to cloud technology, CGI launched a cloud-ready enterprise payments solution, CGI All Payments, on Amazon’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in November. "
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 17 January, "With the deployment of Tyler’s State Regulatory Platform suite in the cloud, powered by Amazon Web Services, the agency aims to leverage additional integrated capabilities, along with heightened security and stability. ", "Zoom and Amazon each sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), and NVIDIA carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). "
- According to FXStreet on Thursday, 18 January, "Big tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Alphabet create products and software that are critical to consumers and businesses, which makes them fairly recession proof. ", "Microsoft’s is 34.7, Alphabet’s is 21.5, Amazon is at 40, Apple is 28.5 and Tesla’s is 66. "
3. Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC)
17% sales growth and 18.57% return on equity
Hercules Capital, Inc. is a business development company. The firm specializing in providing venture debt, debt, senior secured loans, and growth capital to privately held venture capital-backed companies at all stages of development from startups, to expansion stage including select publicly listed companies and select special opportunity lower middle market companies that require additional capital to fund acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancing and established-stage companies. The firm provides growth capital financing solutions for capital extension; management buy-out and corporate spin-out financing solutions; company, asset specific, or intellectual property acquisition financing; convertible, subordinated and/or mezzanine loans; domestic and international corporate expansion; vendor financing; revenue acceleration by sales and marketing development, and manufacturing expansion. It provides asset-based financing with a focus on cash flow; accounts receivable facilities; equipment loans or leases; equipment acquisition; facilities build-out and/or expansion; working capital revolving lines of credit; inventory. The firm also provides bridge financing to IPO or mergers and acquisitions or technology acquisition; dividend recapitalizations and other sources of investor liquidity; cash flow financing to protect against share price volatility; competitor acquisition; pre-IPO financing for extra cash on the balance sheet; public company financing to continue asset growth and production capacity; short-term bridge financing; and strategic and intellectual property acquisition financings. It also focuses on customized financing solutions, emerging growth, mid venture, and late venture financing. The firm invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The firm generally seeks to invest in companies that have been operating for at least six to 12 months prior to the date of their investment. It prefers to invest in technology, energy technology, sustainable and renewable technology, and life sciences. Within technology the firm focuses on advanced specialty materials and chemicals; communication and networking, consumer and business products; consumer products and services, digital media and consumer internet; electronics and computer hardware; enterprise software and services; gaming; healthcare services; information services; business services; media, content and information; mobile; resource management; security software; semiconductors; semiconductors and hardware; and software sector. Within energy technology, it invests in agriculture; clean technology; energy and renewable technology, fuels and power technology; geothermal; smart grid and energy efficiency and monitoring technologies; solar; and wind. Within life sciences, the firm invests in biopharmaceuticals; biotechnology tools; diagnostics; drug discovery, development and delivery; medical devices and equipment; surgical devices; therapeutics; pharma services; and specialty pharmaceuticals. It also invests in educational services. The firm invests primarily in United States based companies and considers investment in the West Coast, Mid-Atlantic regions, Southeast and Midwest; particularly in the areas of software, biotech and information services. The firm prefers to invest between $10 million to $250 million in equity per transactions. It invests generally between $1 million to $40 million in companies focused primarily on business services, communications, electronics, hardware, and healthcare services. The firm invests primarily in private companies but also have investments in public companies. For equity investments, the firm seeks to represent a controlling interest in its portfolio companies which may exceed 25% of the voting securities of such companies. The firm seeks to invest a limited portion of its assets in equipment-based loans to early-stage prospective portfolio companies. These loans are generally for amounts up to $3 million but may be up to $15 million for certain energy technology venture investments. The firm allows certain debt investments have the right to convert a portion of the debt investment into equity. It also co-invests with other private equity firms. The firm seeks to exit its investments through initial public offering, a private sale of equity interest to a third party, a merger or an acquisition of the company or a purchase of the equity position by the company or one of its stockholders. The firm has structured debt with warrants which typically have maturities of between two and seven years with an average of three years; senior debt with an investment horizon of less than three years; equipment loans with an investment horizon ranging from three to four years; and equity related securities with an investment horizon ranging from three to seven years. The firm prefers to invest through its balance sheet capital. The firm formerly known as Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. Hercules Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; San Diego, California; Westport, Connecticut; Elmhurst, Illinois; Santa Monica, California; McLean, Virginia; New York, New York; Radnor, Pennsylvania; and Washington, District of Columbia and London, United Kingdom.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Hercules Technology Growth Capital has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.
PE Ratio
Hercules Technology Growth Capital has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 8.61. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $8.61 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 18.57%.
Moving Average
Hercules Technology Growth Capital’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $15.87 and way above its 200-day moving average of $15.24.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Nov 13, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.92 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 11.15%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 38.6%, now sitting on 438.25M for the twelve trailing months.
4. Agree Realty Corporation (ADC)
14.9% sales growth and 3.38% return on equity
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Agree Realty Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.7.
PE Ratio
Agree Realty Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 37.04. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $37.04 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 3.38%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Agree Realty Corporation is 1259540 which is 33.94% above its average volume of 940337.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Agree Realty Corporation’s EBITDA is 65.15.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Dec 27, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 2.96 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 4.7%.
5. Huron Consulting Group (HURN)
8.7% sales growth and 13.83% return on equity
Huron Consulting Group Inc., a professional services firm, provides consultancy services in the United States and internationally. Its Healthcare segment provides advisory services in the areas of financial and operational improvement, care transformation, and revenue cycle managed services; organizational transformation; and digital, technology and analytic solutions to national and regional hospitals, integrated health systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and medical groups. The company's Business Advisory segment offers cloud-based technology, analytics, restructuring, and capital advisory solutions to life science, financial, healthcare, education, energy and utilities, and industrials and manufacturing industries, as well as to public sectors. Its Education segment provides research enterprise and student lifecycle; digital, technology and analytic solutions; and organizational transformation services to public and private colleges and universities, academic medical centers, research institutes, and other not-for-profit organizations. Huron Consulting Group Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Huron Consulting Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.89.
PE Ratio
Huron Consulting Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.76. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.76 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 13.83%.
Moving Average
Huron Consulting Group’s worth is above its 50-day moving average of $103.06 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $93.52.
6. Assurant (AIZ)
8% sales growth and 12.3% return on equity
Assurant, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect, and connect consumer purchases in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates through three segments: Global Lifestyle, Global Housing, and Global Preneed. The Global Lifestyle segment provides mobile device protection products and services, and extended service contracts for consumer electronics and appliances, as well as assistance services; vehicle protection and related services; and credit and other insurance services. The Global Housing segment offers lender-placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing, and flood insurance; and renters insurance and related products, as well as voluntary manufactured housing insurance, homeowners insurance, and other specialty products. The Global Preneed segment provides pre-funded funeral insurance, final need insurance, and related services. The company was formerly known as Fortis, Inc. and changed its name to Assurant, Inc. in February 2004. Assurant, Inc. was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Assurant has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.77.
PE Ratio
Assurant has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 17.31. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $17.31 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 12.3%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Assurant’s stock is valued at $169.08 at 00:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $173.61 and way above its 52-week low of $104.49.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Assurant is 213610 which is 45.96% below its average volume of 395304.
Sales Growth
Assurant’s sales growth is 5.7% for the current quarter and 8% for the next.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Nov 23, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 2.88 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.69%.
