(VIANEWS) – Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), CoStar Group (CSGP), Akamai Technologies (AKAM) 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. Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
13.7% sales growth and 14.83% return on equity
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets products that enable physicians and healthcare providers to enhance the quality of and access to minimally invasive care in the United States and internationally. The company offers the da Vinci Surgical System that enables complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach; and Ion endoluminal system, which extends its commercial offerings beyond surgery into diagnostic procedures enabling minimally invasive biopsies in the lung. It also provides a suite of stapling, energy, and core instrumentation for its multi-port da Vinci surgical systems; progressive learning pathways to support the use of its technology; infrastructure of service and support specialists, a complement of services to its customers, including installation, repair, maintenance, 24/7 technical support, and proactive system health monitoring; and integrated digital capabilities providing connected offerings, streamlining performance for hospitals with program-enhancing insights. The company sells its products through direct sales organizations, such as capital and clinical sales teams. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Intuitive Surgical has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.02.
PE Ratio
Intuitive Surgical has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 75.24. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $75.24 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 14.83%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Intuitive Surgical’s stock is valued at $377.70 at 19:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $385.43 and way above its 52-week low of $222.65.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Intuitive Surgical is 694858 which is 59.04% below its average volume of 1696540.
Sales Growth
Intuitive Surgical’s sales growth is 17.1% for the present quarter and 13.7% for the next.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 14.6% and 9.9%, respectively.
2. CoStar Group (CSGP)
11.7% sales growth and 5.79% 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 $0.99.
PE Ratio
CoStar Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 82.67. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $82.67 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 5.79%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for CoStar Group is 930105 which is 50.15% below its average volume of 1866100.
Sales Growth
CoStar Group’s sales growth is 10.6% for the current quarter and 11.7% for the next.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
CoStar Group’s EBITDA is 307.64.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
CoStar Group’s stock is valued at $81.84 at 19:22 EST, way under its 52-week high of $92.36 and way above its 52-week low of $65.12.
Previous days news about CoStar Group(CSGP)
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 14 February, "Analysts on Wall Street project that CoStar Group (CSGP Quick QuoteCSGP – Free Report) will announce quarterly earnings of $0.32 per share in its forthcoming report, representing a decline of 15.8% year over year. "
3. Akamai Technologies (AKAM)
9.1% sales growth and 12.04% return on equity
Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud services for securing, delivering, and computing content, applications, and software over the internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud solutions to keep infrastructure, websites, applications, application programming interfaces, and users safe from various cyberattacks and online threats while enhancing performance. It also provides web and mobile performance solutions to enable dynamic websites and applications; media delivery solutions, including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics; and cloud computing services, such as compute, storage, networking, database, and container management services to build, deploy, and secure applications and workloads. In addition, the company offers carrier offerings, including cybersecurity protection, parental controls, DNS infrastructure and content delivery solutions; and an array of service and support to assist customers with integrating, configuring, optimizing, and managing its offerings. It sells its solutions through direct sales and service organizations, as well as through various channel partners. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Akamai Technologies has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.51.
PE Ratio
Akamai Technologies has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 31.03. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $31.03 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 12.04%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Akamai Technologies’s EBITDA is 56.29.
Moving Average
Akamai Technologies’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $119.39 and above its 200-day moving average of $103.46.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Akamai Technologies is 2009580 which is 36.26% above its average volume of 1474730.
4. Equifax (EFX)
9.1% sales growth and 12.74% return on equity
Equifax Inc. operates as a data, analytics, and technology company. The company operates through three segments: Workforce Solutions, U.S. Information Solutions (USIS), and International. The Workforce Solutions segment offers services that enables customers to verify income, employment, educational history, criminal justice data, healthcare professional licensure, and sanctions of people in the United States; and employer customers with services that assist them in complying with and automating payroll-related and human resource management processes throughout the entire cycle of the employment relationship. The USIS segment provides consumer and commercial information services, such as credit information and credit scoring, credit modeling and portfolio analytics, locate, fraud detection and prevention, identity verification, and other consulting services; mortgage services; financial marketing services; identity management services; and credit monitoring products. The International segment offers information service products, which include consumer and commercial services, such as credit and financial information, and credit scoring and modeling; and credit and other marketing products and services, as well as offers information, technology, and other services to support debt collections and recovery management. The company serves customers in financial services, mortgage, retail, telecommunications, utilities, automotive, brokerage, healthcare, and insurance industries, as well as government agencies. It operates in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and the Republic of Ireland. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Equifax has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.4.
PE Ratio
Equifax has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 58.87. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $58.87 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 12.74%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 20.3% and 17.5%, respectively.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Equifax’s EBITDA is 68.23.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 6%, now sitting on 5.14B for the twelve trailing months.
Previous days news about Equifax(EFX)
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 14 February, "Of the Business Services sector players that have already released fourth-quarter results so far, the bottom-line results of Waste Management, Inc. (WM Quick QuoteWM – Free Report) , Equifax Inc. (EFX Quick QuoteEFX – Free Report) and The Western Union Company (WU Quick QuoteWU – Free Report) beat the respective Zacks Consensus Estimate."
5. Gentex Corporation (GNTX)
8.8% sales growth and 19.57% return on equity
Gentex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and supplies digital vision, connected car, dimmable glass, and fire protection products in the United States, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and internationally. It operates through Automotive Products and Other segments. The company offers automotive products, including interior and exterior electrochromic automatic-dimming rearview mirrors, automotive electronics, and non-automatic-dimming rearview mirrors for automotive passenger cars, light trucks, pick-up trucks, sport utility vehicles, and vans for original equipment manufacturers, automotive suppliers, and various aftermarket and accessory customers. It also provides variable dimmable windows to aircraft manufacturers and airline operators. In addition, the company offers photoelectric smoke detectors and alarms, electrochemical carbon monoxide alarms and detectors, audible and visual signaling alarms, and bells and speakers used in fire detection systems in office buildings, hotels, and other commercial and residential buildings, as well as researches and develops nanofiber chemical sensing products. The company sells its fire protection products directly, as well as through sales managers and manufacturer representative organizations to fire protection and security product distributors, electrical wholesale houses, and original equipment manufacturers of fire protection systems. Gentex Corporation was incorporated in 1974 and is headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Gentex Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.84.
PE Ratio
Gentex Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 18.28. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $18.28 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 19.57%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Gentex Corporation is 1806420 which is 31.13% above its average volume of 1377530.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Gentex Corporation’s EBITDA is 50.76.
6. WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. (WSC)
6% sales growth and 23.68% return on equity
WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. provides modular space and portable storage solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. The company leases various office space and storage solutions for temporary applications across a customer base in the commercial and industrial, construction, retail, education, health care, government, transportation, security, and energy sectors. . It operates a fleet of over 350,000 portable offices and storage containers. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.71.
PE Ratio
WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 29.88. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $29.88 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 23.68%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp.’s stock is valued at $51.10 at 19:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $53.46 and way above its 52-week low of $34.40.
Moving Average
WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp.’s value is way higher than its 50-day moving average of $44.01 and way above its 200-day moving average of $43.37.
Sales Growth
WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp.’s sales growth is 5% for the current quarter and 6% for the next.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. is 330107 which is 82.08% below its average volume of 1843050.
