(VIANEWS) – National Health Investors (NHI), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Mercer International (MERC) 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. National Health Investors (NHI)
29.8% sales growth and 4.67% return on equity
Incorporated in 1991, National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI) is a real estate investment trust specializing in sale-leaseback, joint-venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of need-driven and discretionary senior housing and medical investments. NHI's portfolio consists of independent, assisted and memory care communities, entrance-fee retirement communities, skilled nursing facilities, medical office buildings and specialty hospitals.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, National Health Investors has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.48.
PE Ratio
National Health Investors has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 32.97. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $32.97 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 4.67%.
Moving Average
National Health Investors’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $51.15 and way under its 200-day moving average of $56.49.
2. Extreme Networks (EXTR)
20.9% sales growth and 57.35% return on equity
Extreme Networks, Inc. provides software-driven networking solutions worldwide. It designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment; and develops software for network management, policy, analytics, security, and access controls. The company offers ExtremeCloud IQ, an ML/AI powered, wired, and wireless cloud network management solution that offers advanced visibility and control over users, devices, and applications; ExtremeCloud IQ – Site Engine that provides task automation, access control, granular visibility with real-time analytics and multi-vendor device management; and ExtremeCloud IQ Essentials offers WIPS, location services, IoT, and guest management services. It also provides wireless access point products; ExtremeSwitching portfolio that includes access edge products that offer physical presentations along with options to deliver Ethernet or convergence-friendly Power-over-Ethernet (POE), including high-power universal POE; aggregation/core switches designed to address aggregation, top-of-rack, and campus core environments; and data center switches and routers. In addition, the company offers cloud native platforms and applications for service providers; and customer support and services. It markets and sells its products through distributors, resellers, and field sales organizations to healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality markets. Extreme Networks, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Extreme Networks has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.43.
PE Ratio
Extreme Networks has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 38.26. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $38.26 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 57.35%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 106.7% and 55%, respectively.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Extreme Networks’s EBITDA is 1.8.
3. Mercer International (MERC)
12.7% sales growth and 16.03% return on equity
Mercer International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp in Europe, the United States, Asia, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Pulp and Wood Products. The company also generates and sells green energy produced from biomass cogeneration power plant to third party utilities. In addition, it manufactures, distributes, and sells lumber and other wood residuals. Further, the company produces NBSK pulp primarily from wood chips, pulp logs, and sawlogs; carbon neutral or green energy using carbon-neutral bio-fuels, such as black liquor and wood waste; and tall oil for use as a chemical additive and green energy source. It sells its pulp to tissue, specialty paper, and printing and writing paper, and other manufacturers; and lumber products to distributors, construction firms, secondary manufacturers, retail yards, and home centers. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Mercer International has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.91.
PE Ratio
Mercer International has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 4.84. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $4.84 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 16.03%.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jun 26, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.3 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.29%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Mercer International’s EBITDA is 0.73.
4. Orrstown Financial Services (ORRF)
5.1% sales growth and 9.22% return on equity
Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. operates as the holding company for Orrstown Bank that provides commercial banking and trust services in the United States. The company accepts various deposits, including checking, savings, time, demand, and money market deposits. It also offers commercial loans, such as commercial real estate, equipment, construction, working capital, and other commercial purpose loans, as well as industrial loans; consumer loans comprising home equity and other consumer loans, as well as home equity lines of credit; residential mortgage loans; acquisition and development loans; municipal loans; and installment and other loans. In addition, the company provides renders services as trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, managing agent, custodian, and investment advisor, as well as provides other fiduciary services under the Orrstown Financial Advisors name; and offers retail brokerage services through a third-party broker/dealer arrangement. Further, it offers investment advisory, insurance, and brokerage services. The company operates through offices in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Perry, and York counties, Pennsylvania; and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, and Washington counties, Maryland, as well as Baltimore City, Maryland. Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is based in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Orrstown Financial Services has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.17.
PE Ratio
Orrstown Financial Services has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 7.62. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $7.62 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 9.22%.
