Apple (AAPL) Strong In Pre-Market Trading
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Apple as such a stock due to the following factors:
- AAPL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $7.7 billion.
- AAPL traded 807,602 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 9:00 AM.
- AAPL is up 2.7% today from yesterday's close.
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More details on AAPL:
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players worldwide. The company also sells related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.4%. AAPL has a PE ratio of 17.4. Currently there are 24 analysts that rate Apple a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Apple has been 57.5 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Apple has a market cap of $753.5 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer durables industry. The stock has a beta of 0.97 and a short float of 1% with 1.03 days to cover. Shares are up 16.4% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
Analysis:
rates Apple as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 47.72% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 76.44% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, AAPL should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- APPLE INC has improved earnings per share by 47.7% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, APPLE INC increased its bottom line by earning $6.43 versus $5.66 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($8.58 versus $6.43).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has greatly exceeded that of the S&P 500, but is less than that of the Computers & Peripherals industry average. The net income increased by 37.9% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $13,072.00 million to $18,024.00 million.
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 30.9%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 29.5%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- Current return on equity exceeded its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of strength within the company. When compared to other companies in the Computers & Peripherals industry and the overall market, APPLE INC's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Apple Ratings Report.
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