(VIANEWS) – Mueller Industries (MLI), Workday (WDAY), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI) 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. Mueller Industries (MLI)
15.7% sales growth and 23.76% return on equity
Mueller Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells copper, brass, aluminum, and plastic products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, the Middle East, China, and Mexico. It operates through three segments: Piping Systems, Industrial Metals, and Climate. The Piping Systems segment offers copper tubes, fittings, line sets, and pipe nipples; PEX plumbing and radiant systems; and plumbing-related fittings and plastic injection tooling. It also resells steel pipes, brass and plastic plumbing valves, malleable iron fittings and faucets, and plumbing specialties; and supplies water tubes. This segment sells its products to wholesalers in the plumbing and refrigeration markets, distributors to the manufactured housing and recreational vehicle industries, building material retailers, and air-conditioning original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The Industrial Metals segment manufactures brass, bronze, and copper alloy rods; plumbing brass, valves, fittings, and gas assemblies; cold-form aluminum and copper products; machining of aluminum, steel, brass, and cast iron impacts and castings; brass and aluminum forgings; brass, aluminum, and stainless-steel valves; fluid control solutions; and gas train assembles to OEMs in the industrial, construction, HVAC, plumbing, and refrigeration markets. The Climate segment offers valves, protection devices, and brass fittings for various OEMs in the commercial HVAC and refrigeration markets; high-pressure components and accessories for the air-conditioning and refrigeration markets; coaxial heat exchangers and twisted tubes for the HVAC, geothermal, refrigeration, swimming pool heat pump, marine, ice machine, commercial boiler, and heat reclamation markets; and insulated HVAC flexible duct systems. Mueller Industries, Inc. was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Collierville, Tennessee.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Mueller Industries has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.83.
PE Ratio
Mueller Industries has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 14.55. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $14.55 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 23.76%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Mueller Industries’s stock is valued at $70.26 at 06:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $72.83 and way above its 52-week low of $34.96.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Sep 6, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.8 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.14%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Mueller Industries is 583263 which is 22.28% below its average volume of 750512.
2. Workday (WDAY)
14.1% sales growth and 21.08% return on equity
Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contracts, manage indirect spend, and build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals; expense management solutions to submit and approve expenses; and a suite of human capital management applications that enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers planning applications; and applications for analytics and reporting comprising augmented analytics to surface insights to the line of business in simple-to-understand stories, machine learning to drive efficiency and automation, and benchmarks to compare performance against other companies. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; and Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications. It serves professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Workday has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.21.
PE Ratio
Workday has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 50.61. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $50.61 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 21.08%.
Moving Average
Workday’s worth is way higher than its 50-day moving average of $236.82 and higher than its 200-day moving average of $255.49.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Workday is 1235180 which is 33.29% below its average volume of 1851640.
3. Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI)
9.3% sales growth and 11.23% return on equity
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Community Trust Bank, Inc. that engages in the provision of commercial and personal banking, and trust and wealth management services to small and mid-sized communities in eastern, northeastern, central, and south-central Kentucky, as well as southern West Virginia, and northeastern Tennessee. The company accepts time and demand deposits, checking accounts, savings accounts and savings certificates, individual retirement accounts and Keogh plans, and money market accounts. Its loan portfolio includes commercial, construction, mortgage, and personal loans; lease-financing, lines of credit, revolving lines of credit, and term loans, as well as other specialized loans, including asset-based financing; residential and commercial real estate loans; and consumer loans. The company also provides cash management, renting safe deposit boxes, and funds transfer services; issues letters of credit; and acts as a trustee of personal trusts, executor of estates, trustee for employee benefit trusts, and paying agent for bond and stock issues, as well as an investment agent and depositor for securities. In addition, it offers securities brokerage services; debit cards; annuity and life insurance products; and repurchase agreements, as well as mobile, internet banking, and e-statement services. The company was founded in 1903 and is headquartered in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Community Trust Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.32.
PE Ratio
Community Trust Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.44. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.44 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 11.23%.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Sep 13, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.88 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.82%.
Moving Average
Community Trust Bancorp’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $47.98 and way above its 200-day moving average of $43.23.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Community Trust Bancorp’s stock is valued at $49.44 at 06:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $52.22 and way higher than its 52-week low of $33.48.
4. Ship Finance International Limited (SFL)
8.7% sales growth and 12.13% return on equity
SFL Corporation Ltd., a maritime and offshore asset owning and chartering company, engages in the ownership, operation, and chartering out of vessels and offshore related assets on medium and long-term charters. The company operates in various sectors of the maritime, and shipping and offshore industries, including oil transportation, dry bulk shipments, chemical transportation, oil products transportation, container transportation, car transportation, and drilling rigs. As of December 31, 2023, the company owned seven crude oil carriers, six oil product tankers, 15 dry bulk carriers, 32 container vessels, one jack-up drilling rig, one ultra-deepwater drilling rig, and five car carriers. It primarily operates in Bermuda, Canada, Cyprus, Liberia, Namibia, Norway, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the Marshall Islands. The company was formerly known as Ship Finance International Limited and changed its name to SFL Corporation Ltd. in September 2019. SFL Corporation Ltd. was founded in 2003 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ship Finance International Limited has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.
PE Ratio
Ship Finance International Limited has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.05. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.05 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 12.13%.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Sep 11, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.08 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 9.77%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Ship Finance International Limited is 697357 which is 39.99% below its average volume of 1162160.
Moving Average
Ship Finance International Limited’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $11.99 and way below its 200-day moving average of $12.61.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 16.1%, now sitting on 826.04M for the twelve trailing months.
