(VIANEWS) - Teekay Tankers Ltd. (TNK), Clearfield (CLFD), TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX) 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. Teekay Tankers Ltd. (TNK)
293.4% sales growth and 4.76% return on equity
Teekay Tankers Ltd. offers marine transport services for the oil industry in Bermuda and worldwide. Teekay Tankers Ltd. offers time and voyage charter services, and ship-to-ship services for commodities such as crude oil and other refined oils. The company also offers tanker technical and commercial management, liquefied gas terminal management and consultancy. It also offers equipment rental and lightering support, such as full-service lightering or other lightering services. The company owned or leased 52 double-hull tankers and nine chartered-in tanksers as of December 31, 2020. The vessels it owns and leases are used in spot market, long-term fixed-rate time charter contracts as well as the spot tanker marketplace. Hamilton is the home of this company, which was established in 2007.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Teekay Tankers Ltd. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.16.
PE Ratio
Teekay Tankers Ltd. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 25.97. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $25.97 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 4.76%.Earnings before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation
Teekay Tankers Ltd. has an EBITDA of 14.63.
2. Clearfield (CLFD)
61.8% sales growth and 39.27% return on equity
Clearfield, Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells standard and custom passive connectivity products to the fiber-to-the-premises, enterprises, and original equipment manufacturers markets in the United States and internationally. The company offers FieldSmart, a series of panels, cabinets, wall boxes, and other enclosures. It also provides WaveSmart, which are optical components integrated for signal coupling, splitting, termination, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and attenuation for integration within its fiber management platform; and outdoor cabinet and fiber active cabinet products. The company offers StreetSmart, a portfolio of fiber management products; FieldShield, a fiber pathway and protection method for reducing the cost of broadband deployment; and YOURx platform that consists of hardened terminals, test access points, and various drop cable options for portions of the access network across various fiber drop cable media. It also provides CraftSmart, a line of optical protection field enclosures, including CraftSmart Fiber Protection Pedestals and CraftSmart Fiber Protection Vaults integrated solutions optimized to house FieldSmart products at the last mile access point of the network in above-grade or below-grade installations. The company offers fiber and copper assemblies with an industry-standard or customer-specified configuration; and designs and manufactures custom solutions for in-the-box and network connectivity assemblies specific to that customer's product line. It provides its fiber to anywhere platform for various incumbent local exchange carriers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless operators, and multiple systems operators and cable TV companies, as well as the utility/municipality, enterprise, and data center markets. The company was formerly known as APA Enterprises, Inc. and changed its name to Clearfield, Inc. in January 2008. Clearfield, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Earnings per Share
Clearfield's trailing 12 month EPS is $3.55.
PE Ratio
Clearfield's trailing 12 months earnings to price ratio is 26.52. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $26.52 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 39.27%.Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Clearfield's EBITDA is 60.51.
Volume
Clearfield's current volume is currently 106177, which is 64.37% less than its average volume at 298076.
3. TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX)
41.3% sales growth and 8.03% 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 $1.36.
PE Ratio
TPG Specialty Lending has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 13.17. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $13.17 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 8.03%.Volume
The current reported volume for TPG Specialty Lending was 295059, which is 29% lower than its average volume (415595).
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 9.3%, now sitting on 287.48M for the twelve trailing months.
Sales Growth
TPG Specialty Lending has seen a 20.2% increase in sales for its current quarter, and 41.3% the following.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company's growth estimates for the present quarter is a negative 9.5% and positive 10.2% for the next.4. Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (ARLP)
34.5% sales growth and 31.38% return on equity
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P., a diversified natural resource company, produces and markets coal primarily to utilities and industrial users in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Illinois Basin Coal Operations, Appalachia Coal Operations, Oil & Gas Royalties, and Coal Royalties. It produces a range of thermal and metallurgical coal with sulfur and heat contents. The company operates seven underground mining complexes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. In addition, it leases land and operates a coal loading terminal on the Ohio River at Mt. Vernon, Indiana; and buys and resells coal, as well as owns mineral and royalty interests in approximately 1.5 million gross acres of oil and gas producing regions primarily in the Permian, Anadarko, and Williston Basins. Further, the company offers various mining technology products and services, including data network, communication and tracking systems, mining proximity detection systems, industrial collision avoidance systems, and data and analytics software. As of December 31, 2021, it had approximately 547.1 million tons of proven and probable coal mineral reserves, as well as 1.17 billion tons of measured, indicated, and inferred coal mineral resources in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.15.
PE Ratio
Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 6.45. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $6.45 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 31.38%.Growth Estimates Quarters
The company's growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is 246.3% and 357.1%, respectively.5. Stanley Black & Decker (SWK)
16% sales growth and 9.33% return on equity
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. engages in the tools and storage and industrial businesses in the United States, Canada, rest of Americas, France, rest of Europe, and Asia. Its Tools & Storage segment offers professional products, including professional grade corded and cordless electric power tools and equipment, and pneumatic tools and fasteners; and consumer products, such as corded and cordless electric power tools primarily under the BLACK+DECKER brand, as well as corded and cordless lawn and garden products and related accessories; home products; and hand tools, power tool accessories, and storage products. This segment sells its products through retailers, distributors, dealers, and a direct sales force to professional end users, distributors, dealers, retail consumers, and industrial customers in various industries. The company's Industrial segment provides engineered fastening systems and products to customers in the automotive, manufacturing, electronics, construction, aerospace, and other industries; sells and rents custom pipe handling, joint welding, and coating equipment for use in the construction of large and small diameter pipelines, as well as provides pipeline inspection services; and sells hydraulic tools and performance-driven heavy equipment attachment tools. This segment serves oil and natural gas pipeline industry and other industrial customers. It also sells automatic doors to commercial customers. The company was formerly known as The Stanley Works and changed its name to Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. in March 2010. Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. was founded in 1843 and is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut.
Earnings per Share
Stanley Black & Decker's trailing 12 months EPS is $9.84.
PE Ratio
The trailing 12 months earnings to price ratio for Stanley Black & Decker is 9.03. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $9.03 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 9.33%.6. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (AMPH)
7.1% sales growth and 16.51% return on equity
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical firm that develops, manufactures, market and sells intranasal, injectable, and inhalation products. It operates in France, China, the United States, and France. Two segments of the company are Finished Pharmaceutical Products (API) and Pharmaceutical Products (FPP). The company offers Primatene Mist (an over-the-counter epinephrine injection product to temporarily relieve mild symptoms of intermittent asthma); Enoxaparin (a low-molecular-weight heparin that prevents and treats deep vein thrombosis); Naloxone for opioid addiction; Glucagon emergency kit; Cortrosyn (a lyophilized powder used in diagnosis of patients suffering from adrenocortical impairment). Amphadase is a bovine-sourced, hyaluronidase inhalation product that absorbs and disperses other drugs. Epinephrine injections are used to treat allergic reactions. Lidocaine jelly can be used as an anesthetic for urological procedures. There's also a lidocaine topical treatment for many procedures. The company offers phytonadione injections, which provide vitamin K1 for infants; emergency syringe products; morphine for patient controlled analges pumps and lorazepam for medical and lorazepam for surgical and for use. It also offers neostigmine methylsulfate injectable to relieve myasthenia gravis; Isoproterenolhydrochloride injection to temporarily or permanently treat heart block. The company also distributes porcine insulin API and recombinant human active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The company serves healthcare facilities, alternative care sites, clinics and doctor's offices. Rancho Cucamonga is the headquarters of this company, which was established in 1996.
Earnings per Share
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals' trailing 12 month EPS is $1.5.
PE Ratio
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals' trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio is 18.68. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $18.68 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 16.51%.Earnings before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals has an EBITDA of 41.97.
Moving Average
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is worth less than its moving average for 50 days of $29.16, and much lower than its moving average for 200 days of $32.65.Revenue growth
The year-over-year revenue growth was 7.1%. It now stands at 484.85M in the 12 trailing months.
7. Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNQ)
6.6% sales growth and 30.83% return on equity
Canadian Natural Resources Limited is a company that acquires, investigates, develops and markets crude oil and natural gas. It offers synthetic crude oil (SCO), medium and light crude oils, as well as Pelican Lake high-grade crude oil. Two crude oil pipelines are among its midstream assets. It also owns a working interest of Primrose's 84-megawatt cogeneration facility. The company's total proven crude oil, bitumen and NGLs resources were 10,528,000,000 barrels (MMbbl); proved SCO reserve were 6,998MMbbl. Total proved plus probable SCO reserve was 7,535MMbbl. Proved natural gas reserves totaled 12,168 Bcf. The company's primary operations are in Western Canada, the United Kingdom section of the North Sea and Offshore Africa. The original name of the company was AEX Minerals Corporation. In December 1975, Canadian Natural Resources Limited became Canadian Natural Resources Limited. Canadian Natural Resources Limited was established in 1973. It is located in Calgary, Canada.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Canadian Natural Resources Limited has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-0.3.
The company's return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder's equity, for the twelve trailing months is 30.83%.Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 75.9%, now sitting on 39.08B for the twelve trailing months.
Annual Top and Bottom Value
Canadian Natural Resources Limited stock was valued at $57.38 as of 05/22 EST. This is way below its 52 week high of $69.15, and far above its 52 week low of $43.67.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Sep 14, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 2.22 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.7%.
Sales Growth
Canadian Natural Resources Limited has experienced a 23.8% and 6.6% sales increase in the current quarter.