Ducommun Inc Stock Downgraded (DCO)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Ducommun Inc (NYSE:DCO) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. Among the primary strengths of the company is its revenue growth. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, deteriorating net income and disappointing return on equity.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

• DCO's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 3.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 5.0%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
• DUCOMMUN INC has exprienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. We feel it is likely to report a decline in earnings in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, DUCOMMUN INC increased its bottom line by earning $1.87 versus $0.98 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 10.2% in earnings ($1.68 versus $1.87).
• Currently the debt-to-equity ratio of 1.54 is quite high overall and when compared to the industry average, suggesting that the current management of debt levels should be re-evaluated. Even though the debt-to-equity ratio is weak, DCO's quick ratio is somewhat strong at 1.05, demonstrating the ability to handle short-term liquidity needs.
• The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Aerospace & Defense industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 152.6% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $5.65 million to -$2.97 million.
• The share price of DUCOMMUN INC has not done very well: it is down 13.71% and has underperformed the S&P 500, in part reflecting the company's sharply declining earnings per share when compared to the year-earlier quarter. Looking ahead, other than the push or pull of the broad market, we do not see anything in the company's numbers that may help reverse the decline experienced over the past 12 months. Despite the past decline, the stock is still selling for more than most others in its industry.

Ducommun Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, and manufactures aerostructure, and electromechanical components and subassemblies. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.4, equal to the average aerospace/defense industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Ducommun has a market cap of $208.6 million and is part of the industrial goods sector and aerospace/defense industry. Shares are down 19.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

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