(VIANEWS) – Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), Knight Transportation (KNX), LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA) 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. Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX)
22.1% sales growth and 12.68% return on equity
Xenon did not generate any revenues from its ongoing collaboration with Neurocrine Biosciences for XEN901, now known as NBI-921352, and missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $15 million.
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., a neuroscience-focused biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and delivers various treatments for people with neurological, endocrine, and psychiatric disorders. The company's portfolio includes treatments for tardive dyskinesia, Parkinson's disease, endometriosis, and uterine fibroids, as well as clinical programs in various therapeutic areas. Its lead asset is INGREZZA, a VMAT2 inhibitor for the treatment of tardive dyskinesia. The company's commercial products also include ONGENTYS, a catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitor used as an adjunct therapy to levodopa/DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors for patients with Parkinson's disease; ORILISSA for the management of moderate to severe endometriosis pain in women; and ORIAHNN, a non-surgical oral medication option for the management of heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine fibroids in pre-menopausal women. Its product candidates in clinical development include NBI-921352 for treating pediatric patients, as well as adult focal epilepsy indications; NBI-827104 to treat rare pediatric epilepsy and other indications; and crinecerfont. The company's products in clinical development also comprise NBI-1065844 for the treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia; NBI-1065845 for the treatment of resistant depression; and NBI-1065846 for treating anhedonia in depression. It has license and collaboration agreements with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.; BIAL – Portela & Ca, S.A.; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; AbbVie Inc.; and Sentia Medical Sciences Inc. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Neurocrine Biosciences has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.47.
PE Ratio
Neurocrine Biosciences has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 53.57. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $53.57 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 12.68%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Neurocrine Biosciences is 725786 which is 8.61% below its average volume of 794247.
Moving Average
Neurocrine Biosciences’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $132.00 and way above its 200-day moving average of $111.39.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Neurocrine Biosciences’s stock is valued at $132.31 at 15:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $143.35 and way higher than its 52-week low of $89.04.
Sales Growth
Neurocrine Biosciences’s sales growth is 25.6% for the current quarter and 22.1% for the next.
2. Knight Transportation (KNX)
19.3% sales growth and 3.07% return on equity
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides truckload transportation services in the United States and Mexico. The company operates through three segments: Trucking, Logistics, and Intermodal. Its trucking services include irregular route, dedicated, refrigerated, flatbed, expedited, dry van, drayage, and cross-border transportation of various products, goods, and materials. The company also provides logistics and intermodal services, such as brokerage, intermodal, and certain logistics; freight management; and non-trucking services. In addition, it offers various support services, including repair and maintenance shop services, warranty, insurance, and equipment leasing; and trailer parts manufacturing services, as well as engages in the driving academy activities. The company operates a total of 18,877 tractors, which comprises 16,432 company-owned tractors and 2,445 independent contractor tractors, as well as 58,315 trailers; and 643 tractors and 9,862 intermodal containers. It serves retail, food and beverage, consumer products, paper products, transportation and logistics, housing and building, automotive, and manufacturing industries. Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Knight Transportation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.34.
PE Ratio
Knight Transportation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 42.04. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $42.04 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 3.07%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Knight Transportation’s EBITDA is 1.69.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter is a negative 47.9% and positive 12.2% for the next.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Knight Transportation’s stock is valued at $56.34 at 15:22 EST, below its 52-week high of $60.99 and way higher than its 52-week low of $45.73.
Sales Growth
Knight Transportation’s sales growth is 15.2% for the present quarter and 19.3% for the next.
3. LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA)
12.9% sales growth and 50.22% return on equity
LPL Financial Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides an integrated platform of brokerage and investment advisory services to independent financial advisors and financial advisors at enterprises in the United States. Its brokerage offerings include variable and fixed annuities, mutual funds, equities, retirement and education savings plans, fixed income, and insurance, as well as alternative investments, such as non-traded real estate investment trusts and auction rate notes. The company also provides advisory platforms that provide access to mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, stocks, bonds, certain option strategies, unit investment trusts, and institutional money managers and no-load multi-manager variable annuities. In addition, it offers money market products; and retirement solutions for commission-and fee-based services that allow advisors to provide brokerage services, consultation, and advice to retirement plan sponsors. Further, the company provides other services comprising tools and services that enable advisors to maintain and grow their practices; trust, investment management oversight, and custodial services to trusts for estates and families, as well as insurance brokerage general agency services; and technology products, such as proposal generation, investment analytics, and portfolio modeling. The company was formerly known as LPL Investment Holdings Inc. and changed its name to LPL Financial Holdings Inc. in June 2012. LPL Financial Holdings Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in San Diego, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, LPL Financial Holdings has a trailing twelve months EPS of $13.68.
PE Ratio
LPL Financial Holdings has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 18.83. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $18.83 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 50.22%.
4. Tecnoglass (TGLS)
8.5% sales growth and 48.55% return on equity
Tecnoglass Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, supplies, and installs architectural glass, windows, and associated aluminum products for the commercial and residential construction industries in North, Central, and South America. The company offers low emissivity, laminated/thermo-laminated, thermo-acoustic, tempered, silk-screened, curved, and digital print glass products. It also produces, exports, imports, and markets aluminum products, including bars, plates, profiles, rods, tubes, and other hardware that are used in the manufacture of architectural glass settings, such as windows, doors, spatial separators, and related products. In addition, the company provides curtain wall/floating facades, windows and doors, interior dividers and commercial display windows, hurricane-proof windows, stick facade systems, and other products, such as awnings, structures, automatic doors, and other components of architectural systems. It markets and sells its products primarily under the Tecnoglass, ES Windows, and Alutions brands through internal and independent sales representatives, as wells as directly to distributors. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Barranquilla, Colombia. Tecnoglass Inc. is a subsidiary of Energy Holding Corporation.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Tecnoglass has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.23.
PE Ratio
Tecnoglass has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 10.22. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $10.22 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 48.55%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Tecnoglass is 329543 which is 6.03% above its average volume of 310773.
Previous days news about Tecnoglass(TGLS)
- Tecnoglass (tgls) beats Q4 earnings estimates. According to Zacks on Thursday, 29 February, "While Tecnoglass has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors’ minds is: what’s next for the stock?"
5. Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR)
7.7% sales growth and 22.99% return on equity
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. engages in the design, development, marketing, and sale of semiconductor-based power electronics solutions for the computing and storage, automotive, industrial, communications, and consumer markets. The company provides direct current (DC) to DC integrated circuits (ICs) that are used to convert and control voltages of various electronic systems, such as portable electronic devices, wireless LAN access points, computers and notebooks, monitors, infotainment applications, and medical equipment. It also offers lighting control ICs for backlighting that are used in systems, which provide the light source for LCD panels in notebook computers, monitors, car navigation systems, and televisions, as well as for general illumination products. The company sells its products through third-party distributors and value-added resellers, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, electronic manufacturing service providers, and other end customers in China, Taiwan, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Japan, the United States, and internationally. Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Kirkland, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Monolithic Power Systems has a trailing twelve months EPS of $8.78.
PE Ratio
Monolithic Power Systems has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 84.99. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $84.99 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 22.99%.
6. Netflix (NFLX)
7.3% sales growth and 26.15% return on equity
Netflix, Inc. provides entertainment services. It offers TV series, documentaries, feature films, and games across various genres and languages. The company also provides members the ability to receive streaming content through a host of internet-connected devices, including TVs, digital video players, TV set-top boxes, and mobile devices. It has operations in approximately 190 countries. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Netflix has a trailing twelve months EPS of $12.06.
PE Ratio
Netflix has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 51.24. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $51.24 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 26.15%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 44.1% and 26.7%, respectively.
Previous days news about Netflix(NFLX)
- According to FXStreet on Wednesday, 28 February, "In a recent letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett stated, "For whatever reasons, markets now exhibit far more casino-like behavior than they did when I was young." As complacent and exuberant speculators learned with GameStop (I recommend the Netflix documentary Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga, if you haven’t already seen it), but some have forgotten, the house always wins."
- Netflix (nflx) suffers a larger drop than the general market: key insights. According to Zacks on Wednesday, 28 February, "The most recent trading session ended with Netflix (NFLX Quick QuoteNFLX – Free Report) standing at $596.48, reflecting a -0.86% shift from the previouse trading day’s closing. ", "Looking at valuation, Netflix is presently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 35.54. "
- According to Zacks on Tuesday, 27 February, "Blockbuster Video’s management team famously scoffed at the idea of sending DVDs in the mail (and later streaming) and refused to acquire Netflix (NFLX). "
- The zacks analyst blog highlights Netflix, the Walt Disney, warner bros discovery and Bank of America. According to Zacks on Tuesday, 27 February, "At the same time, Netflix has got its streaming pricing strategy accurate in times of relentless inflation, while other streaming players have overcharged their customers.", "Currently, Netflix has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and a Growth Score of B, a combination that offers the best opportunities in the growth investing space. "
