(VIANEWS) – LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Atlanticus Holdings Corporation (ATLC) 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. LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT)
22.6% sales growth and 9.31% return on equity
LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. designs, markets, sells, services, and supports medical devices and implants for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease worldwide. It offers angioscope, a fiberoptic catheter used for viewing the lumen of a blood vessel; embolectomy catheters to remove blood clots from arteries or veins; occlusion catheters that temporarily occlude the blood flow; perfusion catheters to perfuse the blood and other fluids into the vasculature; and thrombectomy catheters, which features a silicone balloon for removing thrombi in the venous system. The company also provides carotid shunts that temporarily shunt the blood to the brain during the removal of plaque from the carotid artery in a carotid endarterectomy surgery; powered phlebectomy devices to remove varicose veins; and radiopaque tape, a medical-grade tape applied to the skin that enables interventionists to cross-refer between the inside and the outside of a patient's body, and allows them to locate tributaries or lesions beneath the skin. In addition, it offers remote endarterectomy devices to remove plaque from arteries in the leg; valvulotomes, which cut valves in the saphenous vein to function as an artery to carry blood past diseased arteries to the lower leg or the foot; and vascular grafts to bypass or replace diseased arteries. Further, the company provides vascular patches, which are used for closure of vessels after surgical intervention; closure systems to attach vessels to one another with titanium clips instead of sutures; and surgical glue. It markets its products through a direct sales force and distributors. The company was formerly known as Vascutech, Inc. and changed its name to LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. in April 2001. LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, LeMaitre Vascular has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.13.
PE Ratio
LeMaitre Vascular has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 48.74. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $48.74 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 9.31%.
Moving Average
LeMaitre Vascular’s worth is below its 50-day moving average of $57.98 and under its 200-day moving average of $55.58.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter and the next is 20% and 36%, respectively.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
LeMaitre Vascular’s EBITDA is 6.51.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for LeMaitre Vascular is 147975 which is 45.65% above its average volume of 101595.
2. Martin Marietta Materials (MLM)
19.1% sales growth and 13.54% return on equity
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., a natural resource-based building materials company, supplies aggregates and heavy-side building materials to the construction industry in the United States and internationally. It offers crushed stone, sand, and gravel products; ready mixed concrete and asphalt; paving products and services; and Portland and specialty cement for use in the infrastructure projects, and nonresidential and residential construction markets, as well as in the railroad, agricultural, utility, and environmental industries. The company also produces magnesia-based chemicals products; dolomitic lime primarily to customers for steel production and soil stabilization; and cement treated materials. Its chemical products are used in flame retardants, wastewater treatment, pulp and paper production, and other environmental applications. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Martin Marietta Materials has a trailing twelve months EPS of $15.43.
PE Ratio
Martin Marietta Materials has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.27. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.27 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 13.54%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 10.9%, now sitting on 6.03B for the twelve trailing months.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Martin Marietta Materials’s EBITDA is 55.17.
3. Atlanticus Holdings Corporation (ATLC)
16.9% sales growth and 22.95% return on equity
Atlanticus Holdings Corporation provides credit and related financial services and products to customers the United States. It operates in two segments, Credit as a Service, and Auto Finance. The Credit as a Service segment originates a range of consumer loan products, such as private label and general purpose credit cards originated by lenders through various channels, including retail and healthcare, direct mail solicitation, digital marketing, and partnerships with third parties; and offers credit to their customers for the purchase of various goods and services, including consumer electronics, furniture, elective medical procedures, healthcare, educational services, and home-improvements by partnering with retailers and service providers. In addition, it offers loan servicing, such as risk management and customer service outsourcing for third parties; and engages in testing and investment activities in consumer finance technology platforms. The Auto Finance segment purchases and/or services loans secured by automobiles from or for a pre-qualified network of independent automotive dealers and automotive finance companies in the buy-here, pay-here, and used car business. This segment also provides floor plan financing and installment lending products. Further, the company invests in and services portfolios of credit card receivables. Atlanticus Holdings Corporation was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Atlanticus Holdings Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.67.
PE Ratio
Atlanticus Holdings Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 6.55. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $6.55 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 22.95%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter is a negative 28.4% and positive 23.5% for the next.
4. Gentex Corporation (GNTX)
14% sales growth and 17.48% 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 $1.56.
PE Ratio
Gentex Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 20.36. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $20.36 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 17.48%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Gentex Corporation’s stock is valued at $31.75 at 06:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $34.33 and way above its 52-week low of $23.28.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 25.9%, now sitting on 2.12B for the twelve trailing months.
Previous days news about Gentex Corporation(GNTX)
- According to Zacks on Monday, 2 October, "Other major players are Corning Incorporated (GLW Quick QuoteGLW – Free Report) and Gentex Corporation (GNTX Quick QuoteGNTX – Free Report) . "
5. Merchants Bancorp (MBIN)
13.1% sales growth and 16.92% return on equity
Merchants Bancorp operates as the diversified bank holding company in the United States. It operates through Multi-family Mortgage Banking, Mortgage Warehousing, and Banking segments. The Multi-family Mortgage Banking segment engages in the mortgage banking, which originates and services government sponsored mortgages including bridge financing products to refinance, acquire, or reposition multi-family housing projects, and construction lending for multi-family and healthcare facilities; offers customized loan products for need-based skilled nursing facilities, independent living, assisted living, and memory care; and tax credit equity syndicator. Its Mortgage Warehousing segment funds agency eligible residential loans including origination, purchase, and sale in the secondary market, as well as commercial loans to non-depository financial institutions. The Banking segment offers a range of financial products and services to consumers and businesses, which includes retail banking, commercial lending, agricultural lending, retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, and small business administration lending. Merchants Bancorp was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Merchants Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.71.
PE Ratio
Merchants Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 5.95. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $5.95 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 16.92%.
6. Assertio Holdings (ASRT)
11.1% sales growth and 51.07% return on equity
Assertio Holdings, Inc., a commercial pharmaceutical company, provides medicines in the areas of neurology, hospital, and pain and inflammation. The company's pharmaceutical products include INDOCIN, an oral solution and a suppository form for the treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, including acute flares of chronic disease; moderate to severe ankylosing spondylitis and osteoarthritis; and acute painful shoulder and gouty arthritis. It also provides CAMBIA, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for the treatment of migraine, nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia; Zipsor, an NSAID for relief of mild to moderate acute pain; and SPRIX, an NSAID for the short term management of moderate to moderately severe pain that requires analgesia at the opioid level. The company was formerly known as Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Assertio Holdings, Inc. in May 2020. Assertio Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Assertio Holdings has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.71.
PE Ratio
Assertio Holdings has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 1.44. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $1.44 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 51.07%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 16.7%, now sitting on 168.02M for the twelve trailing months.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Assertio Holdings’s stock is valued at $2.46 at 06:22 EST, way under its 52-week high of $8.01 and way above its 52-week low of $2.07.
Sales Growth
Assertio Holdings’s sales growth is 69.5% for the current quarter and 11.1% for the next.
7. Kirby Corporation (KEX)
8.1% sales growth and 5.78% return on equity
Kirby Corporation operates domestic tank barges in the United States. Its Marine Transportation segment provides marine transportation services and towing vessels transporting bulk liquid products, as well as operates tank barges throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, coastwise along three United States coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii. This segment also transports petrochemicals, black oil, refined petroleum products, and agricultural chemicals by tank barges; and operates offshore dry-bulk barge and tugboat units that are engaged in the offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes in the United States coastal trade. As of December 31, 2019, this segment owned and operated 1,053 inland tank barges with 23.4 million barrels of capacity, 299 inland towboats, 49 coastal tank barges with 4.7 million barrels of capacity, 47 coastal tugboats, 4 offshore dry-bulk cargo barges, 4 offshore tugboats, and 1 docking tugboat. The company's Distribution and Services segment sells replacement parts; provides service mechanics to overhaul and repair engines, transmissions, reduction gears, and related oilfield services equipment; rebuilds component parts or diesel engines, transmissions and reduction gears, and related equipment used in oilfield services, marine, power generation, on-highway, and other industrial applications; rents industrial compressors, railcar movers, and high capacity lift trucks; and manufactures and remanufactures oilfield service equipment, including pressure pumping units. It serves oilfield service, on-highway transportation, marine transportation, commercial fishing, construction, and power generation companies, as well as oil and gas operators and producers, and the United States government. The company was formerly known as Kirby Exploration Company, Inc. and changed its name to Kirby Corporation in 1990. Kirby Corporation was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Kirby Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.9.
PE Ratio
Kirby Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 28.74. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $28.74 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 5.78%.
8. BRT Realty Trust (BRT)
5.4% sales growth and 4.08% return on equity
BRT is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates and develops multi-family properties.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, BRT Realty Trust has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.5.
PE Ratio
BRT Realty Trust has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 36.36. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $36.36 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 4.08%.
