(VIANEWS) - Oportun Financial Corporation (OPRT), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Host Hotels & Resorts (HST) 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. Oportun Financial Corporation (OPRT)
57.9% sales growth and 13.01% return on equity
Oportun Financial Corporation provides financial services in the United States. It offers personal loans, auto loans, and credit cards. The company serves customers online and over-the-phone, as well as through retail locations. Oportun Financial Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Oportun Financial Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.42.
PE Ratio
Oportun Financial Corporation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 3.99. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $3.99 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 13.01%.Moving Average
Oportun Financial Corporation is worth more than its moving average 50 days of $5.09, and much less than its moving average 200 days of $9.19.2. Origin Bancorp (OBNK)
57.8% sales growth and 10.73% return on equity
Origin Bancorp, Inc. is a bank holding firm for Origin Bank. It provides financial and banking services to low- and middle-sized businesses, individuals, cities, high net wealth, and consumers in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Texas. The bank offers interest-free and noninterest bearing checking accounts, time deposits, savings deposits and money market accounts. It also offers residential, commercial, industrial, commercial, mortgage warehouse and residential mortgage loans. It also provides personal, commercial, and casualty insurance products. It had 43 banks centers as of December 31, 2020. It was established in Ruston in Louisiana in 1912.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Origin Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.5.
PE Ratio
Origin Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 11.53. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $11.53 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 10.73%.Dividend Yield
Morningstar, Inc. estimates that the next dividend payment will be made on November 14, 2022. The forward dividend rate for the year is estimated at 0.6, and the forward dividend yield to be 1.49%.
Annual Top and Bottom Value
Origin Bancorp stock was valued at $40.36 as of 10:22 EST. This is lower than its 52 week high of $47.28 but higher than its low 52-week of $36.80.
Moving Average
Origin Bancorp's worth is under its 50-day moving average of $40.69 and below its 200-day moving average of $41.06.Revenue growth
The year-on-year revenue growth was 4% and now stands at 287.84M in the 12 trailing months.
3. Host Hotels & Resorts (HST)
24.1% sales growth and 8.73% return on equity
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and is the largest lodging real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. The Company currently owns 75 properties in the United States and five properties internationally totaling approximately 46,700 rooms. The Company also holds non-controlling interests in six domestic and one international joint ventures. Guided by a disciplined approach to capital allocation and aggressive asset management, the Company partners with premium brands such as Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Westin, Sheraton, W St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Hyatt, Fairmont, Hilton, Swissôtel, ibis and Novotel, as well as independent brands.
Earnings per Share
Host Hotels & Resorts' trailing 12 months EPS is $-1.04.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is a measure of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 8.73%.4. Provident Financial Holdings (PROV)
21.4% sales growth and 6.62% return on equity
Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. is the holding company of Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B. Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B. provides services for small- to medium-sized business owners in Southern California's Inland Empire. Deposit products include time deposits, checking, savings and money market accounts. The loan portfolio includes single-family and multi-family homes, commercial realety, mortgages, business loans, consumer loans, and commercial real estate. It also provides investment services, including the sale and administration of mutual funds and annuities. The company operates 12 full-service banks in Riverside County, and 1 full-service bank in San Bernardino County. Riverside is the home of this company, which was established in 1956.
Earnings per Share
Provident Financial Holdings' trailing 12 months profit per share was $1.16
PE Ratio
Provident Financial Holdings' trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio is 12.51. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $12.51 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is an indicator of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 6.62%.Revenue growth
The year-on-year revenue growth was 6.5%. We now have 39.38M in the 12 trailing months.
Dividend Yield
Morningstar, Inc. estimates that the next dividend payment will be made on November 15, 2022. The forward dividend rate for 2020 is 0.56, and the forward dividend yield of 3.8% is 3.8%.
5. Lumentum Holdings (LITE)
18.6% sales growth and 6.69% return on equity
Lumentum Holdings Inc. manufactures and sells optical and photonic products in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates in two segments, Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers). The OpComms segment offers components, modules, and subsystems that enable the transmission and transport of video, audio, and data over high-capacity fiber optic cables. It offers tunable transponders, transceivers, and transmitter modules; tunable lasers, receivers, and modulators; transport products, such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, amplifiers, and optical channel monitors, as well as components, including 980nm, multi-mode, and Raman pumps; and switches, attenuators, photodetectors, gain flattening filters, isolators, wavelength-division multiplexing filters, arrayed waveguide gratings, multiplex/de-multiplexers, and integrated passive modules. This segment also provides Super Transport Blade, which integrates optical transport functions into a single-slot blade; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; directly modulated and electro-absorption modulated lasers; and laser illumination sources for 3D sensing systems. It serves customers in telecommunications, data communications, and consumer and industrial markets. The Commercial Lasers segment offers diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode, and gas lasers for use in original equipment manufacturer applications. It serves customers in markets and applications, such as sheet metal processing, general manufacturing, biotechnology, graphics and imaging, and remote sensing, as well as in precision machining, such as drilling in printed circuit boards, wafer singulation, glass cutting, and solar cell scribing. Lumentum Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Earnings per Share
Lumentum Holdings' trailing 12 month EPS is $1.55.
PE Ratio
Lumentum Holdings' trailing 12-month price-earnings ratio is 35.48. The purchaser of the shares is investing $35.48 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is an indicator of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 6.69%.Growth Estimates Quarters
For the current quarter, the company expects to grow by a negative 17.5%, and negative 14.3% respectively.Annual Top and Bottom Value
Lumentum Holdings stock was valued at $55.00 as of 10:23 EST. This is way lower than the 52-week high at $108.90, and much higher than the 52-week low at $52.12.
Earnings before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation
Lumentum Holdings EBITDA stands at 2.55.
6. Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI)
10.1% sales growth and 8.35% return on equity
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. provides healthcare information technology solutions and services in the United States and the Caribbean nation of St. Maarten. Its software systems include patient management software that enables a hospital to identify a patient at various points in the healthcare delivery system, as well as to collect and maintain patient information throughout the process of patient care; and financial accounting software, which offers business office applications to track and coordinate information needed for managerial decision-making. The company also provides clinical software that automates record keeping and reporting for various clinical functions, including laboratory, radiology, physical therapy, respiratory care, and pharmacy; patient care applications; and enterprise applications that support its products for use in various areas of the hospital. In addition, it offers Centriq, an intuitive user interface to centralize data from various care areas that provide the end user with a tool to view past and present patient information. Further, the company provides software solutions that promote data-driven clinical and financial outcomes for customers in the post-acute care industry; software application support, hardware maintenance, and education and related services; post-acute care support and maintenance services; revenue cycle management products and services, consulting and business management services, and managed information technology services; patient engagement and empowerment technology solutions; and system implementation and training services. It serves community hospitals and physician clinics, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, and small specialty hospitals. Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.
Earnings per Share
Computer Programs and Systems' trailing 12 month EPS is $1.27.
PE Ratio
Computer Programs and Systems' trailing 12-month price-earnings ratio is 22.14. The purchaser of the shares is thus investing $22.14 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is a measure of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 8.35%.Sales Growth
Computer Programs and Systems saw a 10.9% increase in sales for the current quarter and 10.1% the following.
7. Iron Mountain Incorporated (IRM)
5.6% sales growth and 59.84% return on equity
Iron Mountain Incorporated, NYSE: IRM) was founded in 1951 and is a global leader in information storage. Iron Mountain is trusted by over 225,000 companies around the globe. With a network that spans more than 90,000,000 square feet and more than 1,480 locations in 50 countries, Iron Mountain protects and stores billions worth of valuable assets. This includes highly confidential data and artifacts from history and culture. Iron Mountain offers solutions such as secure records storage, data management, digital transformation and secure destruction. It also provides cloud services, art storage and logistics. This helps customers reduce cost, risk and comply with regulations.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Iron Mountain Incorporated has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.7.
PE Ratio
Iron Mountain Incorporated has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 32.01. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $32.01 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 59.84%.