(VIANEWS) – TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX), Atmos Energy Corporation (ATO), Tenaris S.A. (TS) 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. TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX)
34.6% sales growth and 9.1% return on equity
Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE: TSLX) is a business development company. The fund provides senior secured loans (first-lien, second-lien, and unitranche), unsecured loans, mezzanine debt, and investments in corporate bonds and equity securities and structured products, non-control structured equity, and common equity with a focus on co-investments for organic growth, acquisitions, market or product expansion, restructuring initiatives, recapitalizations, and refinancing. The fund invests in business services, software & technology, healthcare, energy, consumer & retail, manufacturing, industrials, royalty related businesses, education, and specialty finance. It seeks to finance and lending to middle market companies principally located in the United States. The fund invests in companies with enterprise value between $50 million and $1 billion or more and EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. The transaction size is between $15 million and $350 million. The fund invests across the spectrum of the capital structure and can arrange syndicated transactions of up to $500 million and hold sizeable positions within its credits.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, TPG Specialty Lending has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.49.
PE Ratio
TPG Specialty Lending has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 13.44. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $13.44 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 9.1%.
Sales Growth
TPG Specialty Lending’s sales growth is 56.7% for the present quarter and 34.6% for the next.
2. Atmos Energy Corporation (ATO)
23.4% sales growth and 8.65% return on equity
Atmos Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the regulated natural gas distribution, and pipeline and storage businesses in the United States. It operates in two segments, Distribution, and Pipeline and Storage. The Distribution segment is involved in the regulated natural gas distribution and related sales operations in eight states. This segment distributes natural gas to approximately three million residential, commercial, public authority, and industrial customers. As of September 30, 2020, it owned 71,558 miles of underground distribution and transmission mains. The Pipeline and Storage segment engages in the pipeline and storage operations. This segment transports natural gas for third parties and manages five underground storage reservoirs in Texas; and provides ancillary services to the pipeline industry, including parking arrangements, lending, and inventory sales. As of September 30, 2020, it owned 5,684 miles of gas transmission lines. Atmos Energy Corporation was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Atmos Energy Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.76.
PE Ratio
Atmos Energy Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 21.23. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $21.23 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 8.65%.
Sales Growth
Atmos Energy Corporation’s sales growth is 18.9% for the present quarter and 23.4% for the next.
3. Tenaris S.A. (TS)
22% sales growth and 22.8% return on equity
Tenaris S.A., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells seamless and welded steel tubular products; and provides related services for the oil and gas industry, and other industrial applications. The company offers steel casings, tubing products, mechanical and structural pipes, cold-drawn pipes, and premium joints and couplings; coiled tubing products for oil and gas drilling and workovers, and subsea pipelines; and umbilical tubing products; and tubular accessories. It also provides sucker rods, industrial equipment, heat exchangers, and utility conduits for buildings, as well as sells energy and raw materials. In addition, it offers financial services. The company operates in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Tenaris S.A. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Tenaris S.A. is a subsidiary of Techint Holdings S.à r.l.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Tenaris S.A. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.38.
PE Ratio
Tenaris S.A. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 6.25. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $6.25 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 22.8%.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Tenaris S.A.’s EBITDA is 10.22.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 75%, now sitting on 13.54B for the twelve trailing months.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on May 21, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.02 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.05%.
4. The ONE Group Hospitality (STKS)
19.1% sales growth and 18.03% return on equity
The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc., a hospitality company, develops, owns, operates, manages, and licenses restaurants and lounges worldwide. It operates through STK, Kona Grill, and ONE Hospitality segments. The company also provides turn-key food and beverage services for hospitality venues, including hotels, casinos, and other locations. Its hospitality food and beverage solutions include developing, managing, and operating restaurants, bars, rooftops, pools, banqueting, catering, private dining rooms, room service, and mini bars; and offers hospitality advisory and consulting services. The company operates restaurants primarily under the STK and Kona Grill brands. As of December 31, 2021, it owned, operated, managed, or licensed 60 venues, including 23 STKs and 24 Kona Grills in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as 13 F&B venues in seven hotels and casinos in the United States and Europe. The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, The ONE Group Hospitality has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.37.
PE Ratio
The ONE Group Hospitality has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 19.46. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $19.46 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 18.03%.
5. Modine Manufacturing Company (MOD)
12.4% sales growth and 29.04% return on equity
Modine Manufacturing Company provides engineered heat transfer systems and heat transfer components for use in on- and off-highway original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vehicular applications. It operates through Climate Solutions and Performance Technologies segments. The company offers gas-fired, hydronic, electric, and oil-fired unit heaters; indoor and outdoor duct furnaces; infrared units; perimeter heating products, such as commercial fin-tube radiation, cabinet unit heaters, and convectors; roof-mounted direct- and indirect-fired makeup air units; unit ventilators; single packaged vertical units; precision air conditioning units for data center applications; air handler units; fan walls; chillers; ceiling cassettes; hybrid fan coils; and condensers and condensing units. It also provides heat recovery, round tube plate fin, and motor and generator cooling coils; evaporator unit, fluid, transformer oil, gas, and dry and brine coolers, as well as remote condensers; and coatings to protect against corrosion. In addition, the company offers powertrain cooling products, including engine cooling modules, radiators, charge air coolers, condensers, oil coolers, fan shrouds, and surge tanks; on-engine cooling products comprising exhaust gas recirculation, engine oil, fuel, and charge air coolers; liquid-cooled products, such as engine oil, EGR, liquid charge air, transmission and retarder oil, fuel coolers, and condensers; and complete battery thermal management systems and electronics cooling packages. It serves heating, ventilation, and cooling OEMs; construction architects and contractors; wholesalers of heating equipment; automobile, truck, bus, and specialty vehicle OEMs; agricultural, industrial, and construction equipment OEMs; and commercial and industrial equipment OEMs. The company has operations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Modine Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1916 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Modine Manufacturing Company has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.89.
PE Ratio
Modine Manufacturing Company has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.46. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.46 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 29.04%.
Sales Growth
Modine Manufacturing Company’s sales growth is 6.5% for the present quarter and 12.4% for the next.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 7.6%, now sitting on 2.3B for the twelve trailing months.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Modine Manufacturing Company’s EBITDA is 24.33.
6. James River Group Holdings, Ltd. (JRVR)
10.3% sales growth and 3.97% return on equity
James River Group Holdings, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides specialty insurance and reinsurance services in the United States. It operates through Excess and Surplus Lines, Specialty Admitted Insurance, and Casualty Reinsurance segments. The Excess and Surplus Lines segment underwrites liability and property insurance on an excess and surplus commercial lines basis in all states and the District of Columbia. This segment distributes its insurance policies primarily through wholesale insurance brokers. The Specialty Admitted Insurance segment provides workers' compensation coverage for building trades, healthcare employees, goods and services, light manufacturing, specialty transportation, and agriculture, as well as fronting and program business. The Casualty Reinsurance segment offers proportional and working layer casualty reinsurance to third parties and other insurance companies. James River Group Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, James River Group Holdings, Ltd. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.52.
PE Ratio
James River Group Holdings, Ltd. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 34.06. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $34.06 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 3.97%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for James River Group Holdings, Ltd. is 96329 which is 45.32% below its average volume of 176200.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 16.7%, now sitting on 847.35M for the twelve trailing months.
Sales Growth
James River Group Holdings, Ltd.’s sales growth is 21.4% for the current quarter and 10.3% for the next.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jun 8, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.2 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.11%.
7. K12 (LRN)
9% sales growth and 13.28% return on equity
K12 Inc., a technology-based education company, provides proprietary and third-party online curriculum, software systems, and educational services to facilitate individualized learning for students primarily in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) in the United States and internationally. The company offers managed public school programs, which offer an integrated package of systems, services, products, and professional services that K12 administers to support an online or blended public school, including administrative support, information technology and provisioning, academic support, curriculum, learning systems, and instructional services. It also provides institutional–non-managed public school programs, which offers instruction, curriculum, supplemental courses, marketing, enrollment, and other educational services; and institutional software and services, such as educational software and services to school districts, public schools, and other educational institutions. In addition, the company offers private pay schools and other services; and talent development services for individuals and enterprises in information technology fields. Further, it provides curriculum portfolios, pre-K and K-8 courses, high school courses, learning applications, and learning management systems; and TotalView, a student information system, which include a suite of online applications that offers administrators, teachers, parents, and students a view of student attendance, truancy management, graduation planning, communications, and learning kit shipment tracking. Additionally, the company provides a suite of services, such as academic support, and administrative and technology to students and their families, as well as directly to virtual and blended public schools, traditional schools, and school districts. It sells individual K-8 online courses and supplemental educational products directly to families. K12 Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, K12 has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.54.
PE Ratio
K12 has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 15.21. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $15.21 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 13.28%.
Moving Average
K12’s value is below its 50-day moving average of $39.06 and above its 200-day moving average of $38.38.
Sales Growth
K12’s sales growth is 1.2% for the ongoing quarter and 9% for the next.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
K12’s stock is valued at $38.64 at 01:22 EST, way under its 52-week high of $47.35 and way higher than its 52-week low of $30.66.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for K12 is 284221 which is 22.29% below its average volume of 365790.
