CBS (CBS): Stock With Unusual Social Activity
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified CBS as such a stock due to the following factors:
- CBS has 11x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 6.87 mentions/day.
- CBS has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $396.7 million.
Identifying stocks with 'Unusual Social Activity' tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the 'talk of the town' stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn't matter if it's good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment. Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock's price trend.
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More details on CBS:
CBS Corporation operates as a mass media company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Entertainment, Cable Networks, Publishing, and Local Broadcasting. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.2%. CBS has a PE ratio of 2. Currently there are 17 analysts that rate CBS a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
The average volume for CBS has been 6.2 million shares per day over the past 30 days. CBS has a market cap of $21.3 billion and is part of the services sector and media industry. The stock has a beta of 2.00 and a short float of 3.6% with 1.99 days to cover. Shares are down 12.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates CBS as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and reasonable valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, unimpressive growth in net income and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 5.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 1.0%. 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.
- The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Media industry and the overall market, CBS CORP's return on equity exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- 40.76% is the gross profit margin for CBS CORP which we consider to be strong. Regardless of CBS's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 10.31% trails the industry average.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Media industry average. The net income has decreased by 24.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, dropping from $439.00 million to $332.00 million.
- Reflecting the weaknesses we have cited, including the decline in the company's earnings per share, CBS has underperformed the S&P 500 Index, declining 13.77% 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.
- You can view the full CBS Ratings Report.
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