By Kapitall : Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
Do you consider yourself a contrarian investor? For ideas on how to search for potentially underestimated and undervalued names, we ran a screen.
We began by screening for stocks with bearish sentiment, with float shorts above 10%. We then screened for those that also appear undervalued relative to earnings growth, with PEG below 1.
Then, to analyze these companies' profitability, we ran a DuPont analysis on the names. DuPont analyzes profitability by breaking up return on equity (net income/equity) into three components:
ROE
= (Net Profit/Equity)
= (Net profit/Sales)*(Sales/Assets)*(Assets/Equity)
= (Net Profit margin)*(Asset turnover)*(Leverage ratio)
Because increases in net margin and asset turnover are considered good things, DuPont focuses on companies with these positive characteristics: Increasing ROE along with:
•Decreasing leverage, (i.e., decreasing Asset/Equity ratio)
•Improving asset use efficiency (i.e., increasing Sales/Assets ratio) and improving net profit margin (i.e., increasing Net Income/Sales ratio)
Those companies that pass DuPont are seeing positive trends in the sources of their increasing profitability, which adds further weight to the idea that the names are profitable.
For an interactive version of this chart, click on the image below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.
Do you think these stocks should be trading higher? Use this list as a starting point for your own analysis.
1. JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU): Provides passenger air transportation services in the United States. Market cap at $1.69B, most recent closing price at $5.75. MRQ net profit margin at 3.44% vs. 2.93% y/y. MRQ sales/assets at 0.183 vs. 0.173 y/y. MRQ assets/equity at 3.752 vs. 4.049 y/y.
2. PDL BioPharma, Inc. (PDLI): Engages in the management of antibody humanization patents and royalty assets, which consist of Queen et al. Market cap at $1.05B, most recent closing price at $7.28. MRQ net profit margin at 57.% vs. 54.82% y/y. MRQ sales/assets at 0.341 vs. 0.31 y/y. MRQ assets/equity at -2.164 vs. -1.112 y/y.
3. Teradyne Inc. (TER): Provides automatic test equipment products and services worldwide. Market cap at $3.17B, most recent closing price at $16.54. MRQ net profit margin at 19.13% vs. 16.47% y/y. MRQ sales/assets at 0.188 vs. 0.175 y/y. MRQ assets/equity at 1.38 vs. 1.433 y/y.
4. Valassis Communications Inc. (VCI): Operates as a media and marketing services company primarily in the United States. Market cap at $1.07B, most recent closing price at $26.47. MRQ net profit margin at 7.01% vs. 5.2% y/y. MRQ sales/assets at 0.333 vs. 0.324 y/y. MRQ assets/equity at 3.385 vs. 3.497 y/y.
*Profitability data sourced from Fidelity, all other data sourced from Finviz.
The airlines stocks have really been real dogs for a long long time some of the other stocks listed seem like their companies of good quality. I just cannot get to excited about Jet blue maybe I will be wrong and the airlines will do better over the coming years than I expect.Just one other thing about the airlines they have made great strides over the last decade they have been finding new and better ways to squeeze more profit out of their operations their are also fewer competing airlines now when was the last time that you saw a new airline go into business. If the price of jet fuel was what it was ten years ago many of the airlines would be very profitable. today.
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