Allergan (AGN) Stock Slumps Ahead of Earnings Release
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Allergan (AGN) - Get Report shares are retreating 1.10% to $311.45 on Tuesday ahead of the company's third quarter fiscal 2015 earnings results due out before the market opens on Wednesday.
Year-over-year profit is projected to stay the same while sales are estimated to grow.
For the latest quarter, analysts are expecting the pharmaceutical giant to post earnings of $3.19 a share on revenue of $4.03 billion.
During this period last year, the company earned $3.19 a share on revenue of $3.65 billion.
Overall, the company has been focusing on the women's health segment, which should help results, according to Zacks Equity Research.
Based in Parsippany, NJ, Allergan develops, manufactures, and distributes generic, branded, biosimilar, and over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical products.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates ALLERGAN PLC as a Hold with a ratings score of C+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
We rate ALLERGAN PLC (AGN) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- AGN's very impressive revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 3.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues leaped by 115.8%. 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.
- Compared to its closing price of one year ago, AGN's share price has jumped by 27.47%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. Although AGN had significant growth over the past year, our hold rating indicates that we do not recommend additional investment in this stock at the current time.
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.59, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Although the company had a strong debt-to-equity ratio, its quick ratio of 0.78 is somewhat weak and could be cause for future problems.
- 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 Pharmaceuticals industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 599.2% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $48.70 million to -$243.10 million.
- The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Pharmaceuticals industry and the overall market, ALLERGAN PLC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: AGN