Power-One Inc. Stock Downgraded (PWER)

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Power-One (Nasdaq:PWER) 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 attractive valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and weak operating cash flow.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

• The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 9.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 15.8%. 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.
• PWER has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. To add to this, PWER has a quick ratio of 1.93, which demonstrates the ability of the company to cover 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 Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 49.0% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $41.44 million to $21.12 million.
• Net operating cash flow has decreased to $32.50 million or 45.10% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing the cash generation rate to the industry average, the firm's growth is significantly lower.

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Power-One, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and service of power supply products for the renewable energy (RE), servers, storage and networking, telecommunications, industrials, and network power systems industries worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of six, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Power-One has a market cap of $499.2 million and is part of the technology sector and electronics industry. Shares are up 5.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

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