(VIANEWS) – Navios Maritime Partners LP (NMM), Ciena Corporation (CIEN), Huron Consulting Group (HURN) 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. Navios Maritime Partners LP (NMM)
27.6% sales growth and 28.17% return on equity
Navios Maritime Partners L.P. owns and operates dry cargo vessels in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. The company offers seaborne transportation services for a range of dry cargo commodities, including iron ore, coal, grain, and fertilizers, as well as charters its vessels under medium to long-term charters. As of February 10, 2020, it operated a fleet of 48 vessels with a carrying capacity of 4.9 million dwt, including 48,061 twenty-foot equivalent units. Navios GP L.L.C. serves as the general partner of Navios Maritime Partners L.P. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Monaco.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Navios Maritime Partners LP has a trailing twelve months EPS of $18.82.
PE Ratio
Navios Maritime Partners LP has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 1.26. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $1.26 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 28.17%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Navios Maritime Partners LP’s stock is valued at $23.69 at 06:22 EST, way below its 52-week high of $33.85 and way higher than its 52-week low of $19.71.
Sales Growth
Navios Maritime Partners LP’s sales growth is 31.9% for the current quarter and 27.6% for the next.
2. Ciena Corporation (CIEN)
26.4% sales growth and 6.49% return on equity
Ciena Corporation provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, routing, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers hardware networking products and solutions that optimized for the convergence of coherent optical transport, optical transport network switching, and packet switching. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as Z-Series Packet-Optical Platform; 3000 family of service delivery switches and service aggregation switches, and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and the Ethernet packet configuration for the 5410 Service Aggregation Switch; and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, network function virtualization orchestration, analytics, and related services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers OneControl unified management system and platform software services, as well as manage, control, and plan software. The company's Global Services segment provides consulting and network design, installation and deployment, maintenance support, and training services. The company sells its products through direct and indirect sales channels to network operators. Ciena Corporation was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ciena Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.23.
PE Ratio
Ciena Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 37.55. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $37.55 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 6.49%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 15.4% and 115.2%, respectively.
3. Huron Consulting Group (HURN)
9.9% sales growth and 13.44% return on equity
Huron Consulting Group Inc., a professional services firm, provides consultancy services in the United States and internationally. Its Healthcare segment provides advisory services in the areas of financial and operational improvement, care transformation, and revenue cycle managed services; organizational transformation; and digital, technology and analytic solutions to national and regional hospitals, integrated health systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and medical groups. The company's Business Advisory segment offers cloud-based technology, analytics, restructuring, and capital advisory solutions to life science, financial, healthcare, education, energy and utilities, and industrials and manufacturing industries, as well as to public sectors. Its Education segment provides research enterprise and student lifecycle; digital, technology and analytic solutions; and organizational transformation services to public and private colleges and universities, academic medical centers, research institutes, and other not-for-profit organizations. Huron Consulting Group Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Huron Consulting Group has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.61.
PE Ratio
Huron Consulting Group has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 22.89. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $22.89 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 13.44%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Huron Consulting Group’s EBITDA is 49.36.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Huron Consulting Group is 13885 which is 90.33% below its average volume of 143617.
4. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB)
8.3% sales growth and 6.29% return on equity
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation provides technology-based equipment, systems, and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries worldwide. It operates through two segments, Freight and Transit. The Freight segment manufactures and services components for new and existing freight cars and locomotives; builds new commuter locomotives; rebuilds freight locomotives; supplies railway electronics, positive train control equipment, signal design, and engineering services; and provides related heat exchange and cooling systems. It serves publicly traded railroads; leasing companies; manufacturers of original equipment, including locomotives and freight cars; and utilities. The Transit segment manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, such as regional trains, 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. It also provides electronically controlled pneumatic braking products; railway electronics; freight car trucks; draft gears, couplers, and slack adjusters; air compressors and dryers; heat exchangers and cooling products; and track and switch products. In addition, the company offers railway braking equipment and related components; friction products; new switcher locomotives; transit locomotive and car overhaul services; and freight locomotive overhaul, modernizations, and refurbishment services. Further, it provides platform screen doors; pantographs; window assemblies; couplers; accessibility lifts and ramps for buses and subway cars; and traction motors. 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 $3.46.
PE Ratio
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 28.92. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $28.92 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 6.29%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation’s stock is valued at $100.07 at 06:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $107.86 and way above its 52-week low of $78.26.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Feb 22, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.68 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 0.68%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation’s EBITDA is 59.16.
Sales Growth
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation’s sales growth is 10.1% for the ongoing quarter and 8.3% for the next.
