(VIANEWS) – Live Ventures Incorporated (LIVE), Tenaris S.A. (TS), TCG BDC (CGBD) 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. Live Ventures Incorporated (LIVE)
53.8% sales growth and 22.26% return on equity
Live Ventures Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the flooring manufacturing, steel manufacturing, and retail businesses in the United States. The company's Flooring Manufacturing segment manufactures and sells carpets and rugs, and yarn products focusing on the residential, niche commercial, and hospitality end-markets; and resells hard surface flooring products. This segment serves flooring dealers, home centers, and other flooring manufacturers, as well as directly to end users. Its Steel Manufacturing segment manufactures and sells pre-finished de-carb free tool and die steel products, such as deluxe alloy plates, deluxe tool steel plates, precision ground flat stock products, and drill rods. This segment serves steel distributors and steel service centers. The company's Retail segment operates 62 specialty entertainment retail storefronts that offer entertainment products, including new and pre-owned movies, video games, and music products, as well as ancillary products, such as books, comics, toys, and collectibles. It buys, sells, and trades in new and pre-owned movies, music, video games, electronics, and collectibles through 35 Vintage Stock, 3 V-Stock, 13 Movie Trading company, and 11 EntertainMart retail locations in Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Colorado, Illinois, Idaho, and New Mexico, as well as sells new and used movies, video games, music, and toys through Website, vintagestock.com. This segment also offers services to customers, such as rentals, special orders, disc and video game hardware repair services, and other services. Its Corporate and Other segment provides directory listing services. The company was formerly known as LiveDeal, Inc. and changed its name to Live Ventures Incorporated in October 2015. Live Ventures Incorporated was founded in 1968 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Live Ventures Incorporated has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.15.
PE Ratio
Live Ventures Incorporated has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 8.38. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $8.38 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 22.26%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Live Ventures Incorporated’s EBITDA is 0.84.
Moving Average
Live Ventures Incorporated’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $34.11 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $29.23.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Live Ventures Incorporated’s stock is valued at $34.78 at 20:22 EST, way below its 52-week high of $45.00 and way higher than its 52-week low of $22.81.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Live Ventures Incorporated is 1295 which is 85.12% below its average volume of 8706.
2. Tenaris S.A. (TS)
47% sales growth and 16.47% return on equity
Tenaris S.A., through its subsidiaries, produces and sells seamless and welded steel tubular products; and provides related services for the oil and gas industry, and other industrial applications. The company offers steel casings, tubing products, mechanical and structural pipes, cold-drawn pipes, and premium joints and couplings; coiled tubing products for oil and gas drilling and workovers, and subsea pipelines; and umbilical tubing products; and tubular accessories. It also provides sucker rods, industrial equipment, heat exchangers, and utility conduits for buildings, as well as sells energy and raw materials. Additionally, it offers financial services. The company operates in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Tenaris S.A. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Tenaris S.A. is a subsidiary of Techint Holdings S.Ã r.l.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Tenaris S.A. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.22.
PE Ratio
Tenaris S.A. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 137.9. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $137.9 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 16.47%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 69.6%, now sitting on 10.2B for the twelve trailing months.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Tenaris S.A. is 2684380 which is 35.51% above its average volume of 1980920.
Moving Average
Tenaris S.A.’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $34.29 and above its 200-day moving average of $30.54.
3. TCG BDC (CGBD)
25.7% sales growth and 9.18% return on equity
TCG BDC, Inc. is a non-diversified closed-end investment company. The fund operates as a business development company. The company provides debt investments in the U.S. middle market companies. It also invests in first lien and second lien senior secured loans; middle market junior loans, such as corporate mezzanine loans, equity co-investments, syndicated first lien and second lien senior secured loans, high-yield bonds, structured finance obligations, and other opportunistic investments. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, TCG BDC has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.49.
PE Ratio
TCG BDC has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 9.3. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $9.3 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 9.18%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
TCG BDC’s stock is valued at $13.85 at 20:22 EST, way under its 52-week high of $15.89 and way above its 52-week low of $11.23.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for TCG BDC is 258027 which is 6.51% below its average volume of 276018.
4. ExlService Holdings (EXLS)
12.8% sales growth and 19.7% return on equity
ExlService Holdings, Inc. operates as a data analytics, and digital operations and solutions company in the United States and internationally. It operates through Insurance, Healthcare, Analytics, and Emerging Business segments. The company provides digital operations and solutions and analytics-driven services across the insurance industry in areas, such as claims processing, premium and benefit administration, agency management, account reconciliation, policy research, underwriting support, new business acquisition, policy servicing, premium audit, surveys, billing and collection, commercial and residential survey, and customer service using digital technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced automation; digital customer acquisition services using a software-as-a-service delivery model through LifePRO and LISS platforms; subrogation services; and Subrosource software platform, an end-to-end subrogation platform. It also offers CareRadius, an integrated care management offering; and health care services related to care management, utilization management, disease management, payment integrity, revenue optimization and customer engagement to healthcare payers, providers, pharmacy benefit managers, and life sciences organizations. Further, it offers predictive and prescriptive analytics in the areas of customer acquisition and lifecycle management, risk underwriting and pricing, operational effectiveness, credit and operational risk monitoring and governance, payment integrity and care management, and data management. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ExlService Holdings has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.1.
PE Ratio
ExlService Holdings has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 36.65. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $36.65 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 19.7%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
ExlService Holdings’s EBITDA is 3.82.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 26.8%, now sitting on 1.41B for the twelve trailing months.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 13.4% and 10%, respectively.
5. Alamo Group (ALG)
7.6% sales growth and 13.67% return on equity
Alamo Group Inc. designs, manufactures, distributes, and services agricultural and infrastructure maintenance equipment for governmental and industrial use worldwide. The company offers hydraulically-powered and tractor-mounted mowers, including boom-mounted mowers; other cutters and replacement parts for heavy-duty and intensive uses; and heavy duty, tractor- and truck-mounted mowing, and vegetation maintenance equipment and replacement parts. It also provides truck-mounted air vacuum, mechanical broom, and regenerative air sweepers; pothole patchers; leaf collection equipment and replacement brooms; parking lot and street sweepers; excavators; catch basin cleaners and roadway debris vacuum systems; truck-mounted vacuum trucks, combination sewer cleaners, and hydro excavators; ice control products; snow plows and heavy duty snow removal equipment, hitches, attachments, and graders; landscape and vegetation maintenance equipment; and public works and runway maintenance products, parts, and services. In addition, the company offers rotary and finishing mowers, flail and disc mowers, front-end loaders, backhoes, rotary tillers, posthole diggers, scraper blades, and replacement parts, as well as zero turn radius mowers; cutting parts, plain and hard-faced replacement tillage tools, disc blades, and fertilizer application components; aftermarket agricultural parts; and heavy-duty mechanical rotary mowers, snow blowers, rock removal equipment, and replacement parts. Further, it provides tractor attachments; agricultural implements; hydraulic and boom-mounted hedge and grass cutters, and other tractor attachments and implements; hedgerow cutters, industrial grass mowers, and agricultural seedbed preparation cultivators; self-propelled sprayers and multi-drive load-carrying vehicles; cutting blades; hydraulic and mechanical boom mowers; and high pressure cleaning systems and trenchers. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Seguin, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Alamo Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $8.52.
PE Ratio
Alamo Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 20.73. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $20.73 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 13.67%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Alamo Group is 56434 which is 13.5% below its average volume of 65249.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Alamo Group’s EBITDA is 1.56.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 14.7%, now sitting on 1.51B for the twelve trailing months.
Previous days news about Alamo Group(ALG)
- According to Zacks on Friday, 24 March, "Some other top-ranked stocks from the Industrial Products sector are OI Glass (OI Quick QuoteOI – Free Report) , Alamo Group (ALG Quick QuoteALG – Free Report) and Illinois Tool Works (ITW Quick QuoteITW – Free Report) . "
6. Itau Unibanco (ITUB)
7.1% sales growth and 58.09% return on equity
Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. offers a range of financial products and services to individuals and corporate customers in Brazil and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, and Activities with the Market and Corporation. It offers various deposit products, as well as loans and credit cards; investment and commercial banking services; real estate lending services; financing and investment services; and leasing and foreign exchange services. The company also provides property and casualty insurance products covering loss, damage, or liabilities for assets or persons, as well as life insurance products covering death and personal accident; and reinsurance products. It serves retail customers, account and non-account holders, individuals and legal entities, high income clients, microenterprises, and small companies. The company was formerly known as Itaú Unibanco Banco Múltiplo S.A. and changed its name to Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. in April 2009. The company was incorporated in 1924 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. is a subsidiary of IUPAR – Itaú Unibanco Participações S.A.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Itau Unibanco has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.354.
PE Ratio
Itau Unibanco has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.36. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.36 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 58.09%.
7. Digi International (DGII)
5.1% sales growth and 4.87% return on equity
Digi International Inc. provides business and mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) products, services, and solutions in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, IoT Products & Services and IoT Solutions. It offers cellular routers for mission-critical wireless connectivity; cellular modules to embed cellular communications abilities into the products to deploy and manage intelligent and secure cellular connected products; console servers to provide secure and remote access to network equipment in data centers and at edge locations; and radio frequency products, including embedded wireless modules, off-the-shelf gateways, modems, and adapters under the Digi XBee brand. The company also provides embedded system products under the Digi Connect, ConnectCore, and Rabbit brands; and infrastructure management products, comprising of serial servers, which offers serial port-to-Ethernet integration of devices into wired Ethernet networks; and universal serial bus solutions. In addition, it offers Digi Remote Manager, a recurring revenue cloud-based service that provides a secure environment for customers to manage their connected device deployment; Digi Wireless Design Services, which offers wireless networking product development, testing, and certification services for a range of wireless technology platforms and applications; and SmartSense by Digi for monitoring wirelessly the temperature of food and other perishable or sensitive goods, facilities or pharmacies by tracking the completion of operating tasks by employees, as well as quality control and incident management for food service, healthcare, and transportation/logistics industries. Further, the company provides professional services, such as site planning, implementation management, application development, and customer training; data plan subscriptions; and enhanced technical support services. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Digi International has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.68.
PE Ratio
Digi International has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 49.31. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $49.31 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 4.87%.
Sales Growth
Digi International’s sales growth is 12.9% for the current quarter and 5.1% for the next.
