(VIANEWS) – Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), Iron Mountain Incorporated (IRM), FleetCor Technologies (FLT) 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. Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB)
9% sales growth and 15.94% return on equity
Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Northeast Community Bank that provides various financial services to consumers and businesses. The company accepts deposit products, such as checking, money market, savings, and individual retirement accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. Its loan products include multi-family, mixed-use, and real estate loans; commercial and industrial loans; construction loans; consumer loans; passbook, term, small business administration, and cooperative building loans; and revolving lines of credit. The company also offers various ATM/debit, credit, and gift cards; and investment advisory and financial planning, direct and remote deposit, wire transfer, automated clearing house, credit card merchant, coin and currency, and cash management services, as well as Internet, mobile, and telephone banking services. It operates three full-service branches in New York; three full-service branches in Massachusetts; one full service branch in Rockland County; two full service branch offices in Orange County; and a loan production office in New City, New York. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in White Plains, New York. Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc. is a subsidiary of Northeast Community Bancorp, MHC.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Northeast Community Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.92.
PE Ratio
Northeast Community Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 5.88. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $5.88 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 15.94%.
Sales Growth
Northeast Community Bancorp’s sales growth is 22.3% for the present quarter and 9% for the next.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Oct 4, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.24 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.4%.
2. Iron Mountain Incorporated (IRM)
8.8% sales growth and 53.86% return on equity
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 90 million square feet across more than 1,480 facilities in approximately 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include secure records storage, information management, digital transformation, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way of working.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Iron Mountain Incorporated has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.94.
PE Ratio
Iron Mountain Incorporated has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 69.67. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $69.67 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 53.86%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Iron Mountain Incorporated is 1456130 which is 9.82% below its average volume of 1614820.
3. FleetCor Technologies (FLT)
8.1% sales growth and 35.99% return on equity
FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc., a business payments company that helps businesses spend less by enabling them to manage their expense-related purchasing and vendor payments processes. It offers corporate payments solutions, such as accounts payable automation; Virtual Card, which provides a single-use card number for a specific amount usable within a defined timeframe; Cross-Border that is used by its customers to pay international vendors, foreign office and personnel expenses, capital expenditures, and profit repatriation and dividends; and purchasing cards and travel and entertainment cards for its customers to analyze and manage their corporate spending. The company also provides vehicle and mobility solutions, including fuel solutions to businesses and government entities that operate vehicle fleets, as well as to oil and leasing companies, and fuel marketers; lodging solutions to businesses that have employees who travel overnight for work purposes, as well as to airlines and cruise lines to accommodate traveling crews and stranded passengers; and electronic toll payments solutions to businesses and consumers in the form of radio frequency identification tags affixed to vehicles' windshields. In addition, it offers gift card program management and processing services in plastic and digital forms that include card design, production and packaging, delivery and fulfillment, card and account management, transaction processing, promotion development and management, website design and hosting, program analytics, and card distribution channel management. Further, the company provides other products consisting of payroll cards, vehicle maintenance service solution, long-haul transportation solution, prepaid food vouchers or cards, and prepaid transportation cards and vouchers. It serves business, merchant, consumer, and payment network customers in North America, Brazil, and Internationally. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, FleetCor Technologies has a trailing twelve months EPS of $12.76.
PE Ratio
FleetCor Technologies has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 20.28. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $20.28 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 35.99%.
4. Assurant (AIZ)
8% sales growth and 12.3% return on equity
Assurant, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect, and connect consumer purchases in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates through three segments: Global Lifestyle, Global Housing, and Global Preneed. The Global Lifestyle segment provides mobile device protection products and services, and extended service contracts for consumer electronics and appliances, as well as assistance services; vehicle protection and related services; and credit and other insurance services. The Global Housing segment offers lender-placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing, and flood insurance; and renters insurance and related products, as well as voluntary manufactured housing insurance, homeowners insurance, and other specialty products. The Global Preneed segment provides pre-funded funeral insurance, final need insurance, and related services. The company was formerly known as Fortis, Inc. and changed its name to Assurant, Inc. in February 2004. Assurant, Inc. was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Assurant has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.81.
PE Ratio
Assurant has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 17.13. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $17.13 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 12.3%.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Nov 23, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 2.88 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.71%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Assurant’s stock is valued at $168.02 at 19:22 EST, under its 52-week high of $168.96 and way above its 52-week low of $104.49.
Sales Growth
Assurant’s sales growth is 5.7% for the present quarter and 8% for the next.
Previous days news about Assurant(AIZ)
- The zacks analyst blog highlights erie indemnity, CNA financial and assurant. According to Zacks on Tuesday, 12 December, "On Aug. 1st, 2018, Assurant sold its Mortgage Solutions business, which comprised property inspection and preservation, valuation and title services and other property risk management services.", "Founded in 1969 and headquartered in New York, Assurant Inc. is a global provider of risk management solutions in the housing and lifestyle markets, protecting where people live and the goods they buy."
- According to Zacks on Wednesday, 13 December, "While Assurant currently sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Brown & Brown and Arthur J. Gallagher carry a Zacks Rank #2 each. "
5. ANSYS (ANSS)
7.4% sales growth and 10.13% return on equity
ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services worldwide. It offers ANSYS Workbench, a framework upon which its multiphysics engineering simulation technologies are built and enables engineers to simulate the interactions between structures, heat transfer, fluids, electronics, and optical elements in a unified engineering simulation environment; high-performance computing product suite and the cloud; power analysis and optimization software suite that manages the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design; and structural analysis product suite that provides simulation tools for product design and optimization. The company also provides electronics product suite that offers electromagnetic field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; SCADE product suite, a solution for embedded software simulation, code production, and automated certification; fluids product suite that enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; Ansys Granta products to give access to material intelligence; photonic design and simulation tools; and optical sensor and closed-loop, and real-time simulation, as well as safety-certified embedded software solutions. In addition, the company provides Discovery product family for use in the simulation of product design; and academic product suite used in research and teaching settings, which allows students to become familiar with its simulation software. It serves engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the aerospace and defense, automotive, construction, consumer products, energy, healthcare, high-tech, industrial equipment, and materials and chemical processing industries. ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ANSYS has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.54.
PE Ratio
ANSYS has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 52.71. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $52.71 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 10.13%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for ANSYS is 183505 which is 63.78% below its average volume of 506661.
Sales Growth
ANSYS’s sales growth is 15.4% for the present quarter and 7.4% for the next.
Moving Average
ANSYS’s value is higher than its 50-day moving average of $289.69 and below its 200-day moving average of $309.08.
6. Copa Holdings, S.A. Copa Holdings, S.A. (CPA)
7.2% sales growth and 24.37% return on equity
Copa Holdings, S.A., through its subsidiaries, provides airline passenger and cargo services. The company offers approximately 104 daily scheduled flights to 54 destinations in 25 countries in North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean from its Panama City hub. As of December 31, 2020, it operated a fleet of 77 aircraft comprising 70 Boeing 737-Next Generation aircraft and 7 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. Copa Holdings, S.A. was founded in 1947 and is based in Panama City, Panama.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Copa Holdings, S.A. Copa Holdings, S.A. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $9.7.
PE Ratio
Copa Holdings, S.A. Copa Holdings, S.A. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 9.7. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $9.7 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 24.37%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Copa Holdings, S.A. Copa Holdings, S.A.’s EBITDA is 1.33.
7. The Joint Corp. (JYNT)
5.8% sales growth and 6.15% return on equity
The Joint Corp. develops, owns, operates, supports, and manages chiropractic clinics in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Corporate Clinics and Franchise Operations. It operates through direct ownership, management arrangements, franchising, and the sale of regional developer rights. As of January 27, 2021, the company operated approximately 550 locations in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, The Joint Corp. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.18.
PE Ratio
The Joint Corp. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 52.5. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $52.5 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 6.15%.
