Tredegar Corporation Stock Downgraded (TG)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Tredegar Corporation (NYSE:TG) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, deteriorating net income and poor profit margins.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

• The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 2.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 13.4%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
• The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.30, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.47, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
• TG has underperformed the S&P 500 Index, declining 22.50% from its price level of one year ago. Looking ahead, we do not see anything in this company's numbers that would change the one-year trend. It was down over the last twelve months; and it could be down again in the next twelve. Naturally, a bull or bear market could sway the movement of this stock.
• 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 Chemicals industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 55.0% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $6.67 million to $3.00 million.

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Tredegar Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells plastic films and aluminum extrusions worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.1, below the average conglomerates industry P/E ratio of 23 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Tredegar has a market cap of $486.6 million and is part of the conglomerates sector and conglomerates industry. Shares are down 34.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.

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-- Written by a member of TheStreet Ratings Staff

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