(VIANEWS) – New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), Vaalco Energy (EGY), Roper Industries (ROP) 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. New York Community Bancorp (NYCB)
126.3% sales growth and 28.27% return on equity
New York Community Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for New York Community Bank that provides banking products and services in Metro New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, and Arizona. The company offers various deposit products, including interest-bearing checking and money market, savings, non-interest-bearing, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. It also provides multi-family loans; commercial real estate loans; specialty finance loans and leases, and other commercial and industrial loans; acquisition, development, and construction loans; one-to-four family loans; and consumer loans. In addition, the company offers annuities, life and long-term care insurance products, and mutual funds; cash management products; and online, mobile, and phone banking services. It primarily serves individuals, small and mid-size businesses, and professional associations through a network of 238 community bank branches and 348 ATM locations. The company was formerly known as Queens County Bancorp, Inc. and changed its name to New York Community Bancorp, Inc. in November 2000. New York Community Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Westbury, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, New York Community Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.82.
PE Ratio
New York Community Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 2.84. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $2.84 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 28.27%.
Moving Average
New York Community Bancorp’s worth is way above its 50-day moving average of $9.82 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $9.26.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 38.5%, now sitting on 1.48B for the twelve trailing months.
2. Vaalco Energy (EGY)
57.1% sales growth and 14.19% return on equity
VAALCO Energy, Inc., an independent energy company, acquires, explores for, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas. The company holds Etame production sharing contract related to the Etame Marin block located offshore in the Republic of Gabon, West Africa. It also owns interests in an undeveloped block offshore Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. VAALCO Energy, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Vaalco Energy has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.58.
PE Ratio
Vaalco Energy has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 7.12. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $7.12 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 14.19%.
3. Roper Industries (ROP)
16.1% sales growth and 6.92% return on equity
Roper Technologies, Inc. designs and develops software, and technology enabled products and solutions. The company offers management, campus solutions, diagnostic and laboratory information management, enterprise management, information solutions, transportation management, financial and compliance management, and cloud-based financial analytics and performance management software; cloud-based software to the property and casualty insurance industry; and software, services, and technologies for foodservice operations. It also provides cloud-based data, collaboration, and estimating automation software; electronic marketplace; visual effects and 3D content software; wireless sensor network and solutions; cloud-based software for the life insurance and financial services industries; supply chain software; health care service and software; RFID card readers; data analytics and information; and pharmacy software solutions. In addition, the company offers ultrasound accessories; dispensers and metering pumps; automated surgical scrub and linen dispensing equipment; water meters; optical and electromagnetic measurement systems; and medical devices. It distributes and sells its products through direct sales, manufacturers' representatives, resellers, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Roper Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Roper Technologies, Inc. in April 2015. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Roper Industries has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.67.
PE Ratio
Roper Industries has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 47.18. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $47.18 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 6.92%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Roper Industries’s stock is valued at $456.23 at 01:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $463.90 and way above its 52-week low of $356.22.
4. Entergy Louisiana, LLC First Mortgage Bonds, 5.875% (ELA)
14.8% sales growth and 40.91% return on equity
Envela Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, primarily buys and sells jewelry and bullion products to individual consumers, dealers, Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, school districts, and other organizations in the United States. It offers jewelry and fine-watch products, including bridal jewelry, fashion jewelry, custom-made jewelry, diamonds, and other gemstones, as well as watches and jewelry components. The company also buys and sells various forms of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium products, including United States and other government coins, private mint medallions, art bars, and trade unit bars; and numismatic items, such as rare coins, currency, medals, tokens, and other collectibles, as well as provides jewelry and watches repair services. In addition, it offers end-of-life electronics recycling services; disposal transportation and product tracking services; IT-asset disposition services, including compliance and data sanitization services; and services to companies in the areas of software upgrades, and hardware or networking capabilities, as well as moving to cloud services. As of December 31, 2021, Envela Corporation marketed its products and services through six retail locations under the Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange name; and one retail location under the Charleston Gold & Diamond Exchange name, as well as through cgdeinc.com, dgse.com, echoenvironmental.com, ITADUSA.com, availrecovery.com, and teladvance.com e-commerce sites. The company was formerly known as DGSE Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Envela Corporation in December 2019. Envela Corporation was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Entergy Louisiana, LLC First Mortgage Bonds, 5.875% has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.56.
PE Ratio
Entergy Louisiana, LLC First Mortgage Bonds, 5.875% has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 13.55. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $13.55 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 40.91%.
5. Yelp (YELP)
7.9% sales growth and 5.05% return on equity
Yelp Inc. operates a platform that connects consumers with local businesses in the United States and internationally. The company's platform covers various local business categories, including restaurants, shopping, beauty and fitness, health, and other categories, as well as home, local, auto, professional, pets, events, real estate, and financial services. It provides free and paid advertising products to businesses, which include cost-per-click search advertising and multi-location Ad products, as well as enables businesses to deliver targeted search advertising to local audiences; and business listing page products. The company also offers other services comprising Yelp Guest Manager, a subscription-based suite of front-of-house management tools for restaurants, nightlife and certain other venues, which include online reservations, a waitlist management solution that allows consumers to check wait times and join waitlists remotely as well as through hostless kiosks, and seating and server rotation management tools; Yelp Knowledge program that offers business owners local analytics and insights through access to its historical data and other proprietary content; and Yelp Fusion, which offers free and paid access to content and data for consumer-facing enterprise use through publicly available APIs. In addition, it provides content licensing, as well as allows third-party data providers to update and manage business listing information on behalf of businesses. Further, the company offers its products directly through its sales force; indirectly through partners; and online through its website and business app, as well as non-advertising partner arrangements. It has partnership with Grubhub for providing consumers with a service to place food orders for pickup and delivery. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Yelp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.49.
PE Ratio
Yelp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 72.61. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $72.61 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 5.05%.
6. Ecolab (ECL)
7.8% sales growth and 16.2% return on equity
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Global Industrial, Global Institutional & Specialty, and Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segments. The Global Industrial segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, metals and mining, power generation, pulp and paper, commercial laundry, petroleum, refining, and petrochemical industries. The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, hospitality, lodging, government and education, and retail industries. Its Global Healthcare & Life Sciences segment offers specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the healthcare, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries, such as infection prevention and surgical solutions, and end-to-end cleaning and contamination control solutions under the Ecolab, Microtek, and Anios brand names. The company's Other segment offers pest elimination services to detect, eliminate, and prevent pests, such as rodents and insects in restaurants, food and beverage processors, educational and healthcare facilities, hotels, quick service restaurant and grocery operations, and other institutional and commercial customers. This segment also provides colloidal silica for binding and polishing applications in semiconductor, catalyst, and aerospace component manufacturing, as well as chemical industries; and products and services that manage wash process through custom designed programs, premium products, dispensing equipment, water and energy management, and reduction, as well as real time data management. It sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers. Ecolab Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Ecolab has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.03.
PE Ratio
Ecolab has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 44.74. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $44.74 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 16.2%.
7. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA)
6.5% sales growth and 11.2% return on equity
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P., through its subsidiaries, engages in the transportation, storage, terminalling, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL), and natural gas in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: Transportation, Facilities, and Supply and Logistics. The Transportation segment transports crude oil and NGL through pipelines, gathering systems, trucks, and barges. As of December 31, 2019, this segment owned and leased 18,535 miles of active crude oil and NGL pipelines and gathering systems; 35 million barrels of active and above-ground tank capacity; 825 trailers; 50 transport and storage barges; and 20 transport tugs. The Facilities segment provides storage, terminalling, and throughput services for crude oil, NGL, and natural gas; and NGL fractionation and isomerization, and natural gas and condensate processing services. As of December 31, 2019, this segment owned and operated approximately 79 million barrels of crude oil storage capacity; 34 million barrels of NGL storage capacity; 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage working capacity; 25 billion cubic feet of base gas; seven natural gas processing plants; a condensate processing facility; eight fractionation plants; 30 crude oil and NGL rail terminals; six marine facilities; and approximately 430 miles of active pipelines. The Supply and Logistics segment purchases crude oil at the wellhead, pipeline, terminal, and rail facilities; stores inventory and NGL; purchases NGL from producers, refiners, processors, and other marketers; extracts NGL; resells or exchanges crude oil and NGL; and transports crude oil and NGL on trucks, barges, railcars, pipelines, and vessels. This segment owned 16 million barrels of crude oil and NGL linefill; 4 million barrels of crude oil and NGL linefill; 760 trucks and 900 trailers; and 8,000 crude oil and NGL railcars. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.52.
PE Ratio
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 9.09. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $9.09 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 11.2%.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Apr 27, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.07 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 7.86%.
Sales Growth
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.’s sales growth is negative 0.5% for the present quarter and 6.5% for the next.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is a negative 23.3% and a negative 21.2%, respectively.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. is 4284050 which is 8.56% above its average volume of 3946070.
