(VIANEWS) – LTC Properties (LTC), Eagle Point Credit Company (ECC), Golar LNG Limited (GLNG) 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. LTC Properties (LTC)
24.8% sales growth and 9.61% return on equity
LTC is a real estate investment trust (REIT) investing in seniors housing and health care properties primarily through sale-leasebacks, mortgage financing, joint-ventures and structured finance solutions including preferred equity and mezzanine lending. LTC holds 180 investments in 27 states with 29 operating partners. The portfolio is comprised of approximately 50% seniors housing and 50% skilled nursing properties.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, LTC Properties has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.91.
PE Ratio
LTC Properties has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 16.63. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $16.63 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 9.61%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter is 4.5% and a drop 43.8% for the next.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
LTC Properties’s stock is valued at $31.77 at 10:22 EST, way below its 52-week high of $38.94 and higher than its 52-week low of $30.50.
Sales Growth
LTC Properties’s sales growth is 43.2% for the ongoing quarter and 24.8% for the next.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
LTC Properties’s EBITDA is 50.82.
2. Eagle Point Credit Company (ECC)
23.6% sales growth and 16.22% return on equity
Eagle Point Credit Company Inc. is a closed ended fund launched and managed by Eagle Point Credit Management LLC. It invests in fixed income markets of the United States. The fund invests equity and junior debt tranches of collateralized loan obligations consisting primarily of below investment grade U.S. senior secured loans. Eagle Point Credit Company Inc. was formed on March 24, 2014 and is domiciled in the United States.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Eagle Point Credit Company has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.09.
PE Ratio
Eagle Point Credit Company has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 8.95. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $8.95 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 16.22%.
3. Golar LNG Limited (GLNG)
11.3% sales growth and 3.36% return on equity
Golar LNG Limited designs, builds, owns, and operates marine infrastructure for the liquefaction and regasification of LNG. It operates through Shipping and FLNG segments. The company engages in the operation and chartering of LNG carriers, Floating Liquefaction Natural Gas Vessel (FLNG), and floating storage regasification units (FSRUs), as well as operates external vessels. As of December 31, 2021, it operated nine LNG carriers, one FSRU, and three FLNGs. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Golar LNG Limited has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.51.
PE Ratio
Golar LNG Limited has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 45.18. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $45.18 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 3.36%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Golar LNG Limited’s stock is valued at $23.04 at 10:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $25.06 and way higher than its 52-week low of $19.62.
Sales Growth
Golar LNG Limited’s sales growth is 37.4% for the ongoing quarter and 11.3% for the next.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Nov 29, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 4.34%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth declined by 1.7%, now sitting on 277.89M for the twelve trailing months.
4. First Industrial Realty Trust (FR)
11.1% sales growth and 10.92% return on equity
First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR) is a leading fully integrated owner, operator, and developer of industrial real estate with a track record of providing industry-leading customer service to multinational corporations and regional customers. Across major markets in the United States, our local market experts manage, lease, buy, (re)develop, and sell bulk and regional distribution centers, light industrial, and other industrial facility types. In total, we own and have under development approximately 64.1 million square feet of industrial space as of September 30, 2020.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, First Industrial Realty Trust has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.02.
PE Ratio
First Industrial Realty Trust has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 25.65. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $25.65 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 10.92%.
5. Transcat (TRNS)
9.8% sales growth and 7.52% return on equity
Transcat, Inc. provides calibration and laboratory instrument services in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Service and Distribution. The Service segment offers calibration, repair, inspection, analytical qualification, preventative maintenance, consulting, and other related services. This segment also provides CalTrak, a proprietary document and asset management software that is used to integrate and manage the workflow of its calibration service centers and customers' assets; and Compliance, Control and Cost, an online customer portal that provides its customers with web-based asset management capability, as well as a safe and secure off-site archive of calibration and other service records. The Distribution segment sells and rents test, measurement, and control instruments for customers' test and measurement instrumentation needs, as well as value added services, such as calibration/certification of equipment purchase, equipment rental, used equipment for sale, and equipment kitting. This segment markets and sells its products through website, digital and print advertising, proactive outbound sales, and an inbound call center. The company provides services and products to highly regulated industries, principally life science, which includes companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and other FDA-regulated industries; and additional industries, including aerospace and defense industrial manufacturing, oil and gas and alternative energy, and other industries that require accuracy in processes and confirmation of the capabilities of their equipment. Transcat, Inc. was incorporated in 1964 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Transcat has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.12.
PE Ratio
Transcat has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 87.43. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $87.43 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 7.52%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Transcat is 31573 which is 40.47% below its average volume of 53039.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 66.7% and 20.8%, respectively.
6. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB)
8.8% sales growth and 7.56% return on equity
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation provides technology-based locomotives, equipment, systems, and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Freight and Transit. The Freight segment manufactures and services components for freight cars and locomotives; builds, rebuilds, upgrades, and overhauls locomotives; supplies railway electronics, positive train control equipment, and signal design and engineering services; services locomotives and freight cars; and provides heat exchange and cooling systems, and components and digital solutions. It serves publicly traded railroads; leasing companies; manufacturers of original equipment; and utilities. The Transit segment offers components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, such as regional and high speed trains, subway cars, light-rail vehicles, and buses; refurbishes subway cars; and provides heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment, as well as doors for buses and subways. This segment serves public transit authorities and municipalities, leasing companies, and manufacturers of subway cars and buses. The company also provides electronically controlled pneumatic braking products; freight car trucks; draft gears, couplers, and slack adjusters; air compressors and dryers; track and switch products; railway and freight braking equipment and related components; friction products; access and platform screen doors; pantographs; energy measuring systems; auxiliary power converter and battery charging products; antifire systems; passenger information systems and CCTV; signaling and railway electric relays; sanitation systems; window assemblies; accessibility lifts and ramps for buses; and electric charging solutions for buses and electric ferries. In addition, it offers freight locomotive overhaul, modernizations, and refurbishment services. The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.2.
PE Ratio
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 30.04. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $30.04 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 7.56%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is 50847 which is 94.43% below its average volume of 913227.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation’s EBITDA is 46.87.
7. ANSYS (ANSS)
7.2% sales growth and 10.13% return on equity
ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services worldwide. It offers ANSYS Workbench, a framework upon which its multiphysics engineering simulation technologies are built and enables engineers to simulate the interactions between structures, heat transfer, fluids, electronics, and optical elements in a unified engineering simulation environment; high-performance computing product suite and the cloud; power analysis and optimization software suite that manages the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design; and structural analysis product suite that provides simulation tools for product design and optimization. The company also provides electronics product suite that offers electromagnetic field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; SCADE product suite, a solution for embedded software simulation, code production, and automated certification; fluids product suite that enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; Ansys Granta products to give access to material intelligence; photonic design and simulation tools; and optical sensor and closed-loop, and real-time simulation, as well as safety-certified embedded software solutions. In addition, the company provides Discovery product family for use in the simulation of product design; and academic product suite used in research and teaching settings, which allows students to become familiar with its simulation software. It serves engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the aerospace and defense, automotive, construction, consumer products, energy, healthcare, high-tech, industrial equipment, and materials and chemical processing industries. ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ANSYS has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.54.
PE Ratio
ANSYS has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 59.11. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $59.11 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 10.13%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for ANSYS is 485601 which is 43.78% below its average volume of 863885.
Previous days news about ANSYS(ANSS)
- According to Zacks on Tuesday, 16 January, "The first big tech buyout was announced this morning, with electronic design automation producer Synopsys (SNPS Quick QuoteSNPS – Free Report) offering $35 billion in cash and stock for ANSYS (ANSS Quick QuoteANSS – Free Report) , an engineering simulation software firm with inroads to the automotive and aerospace/defense spaces, among others. ", "Each ANSYS shareholder would receive $197 in cash and roughly one-third of a share of SNPS stock per share of ANSS, pending regulatory approval. "
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 17 January, "The upswing came after Synopsys announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ANSYS Inc. in a deal worth $35 billion. "
- Synopsys (snps) to acquire simulation software maker ansys. According to Zacks on Wednesday, 17 January, "The merger between Synopsys and ANSYS holds profound implications for the semiconductor landscape. ", "Additionally, the ANSYS acquisition will increase Synopsys’ total addressable market by 50% to $28 billion, driven by megatrends demanding the fusion of electronics and physics across industries. "
