Copa Holdings (CPA) Stock: Weak On High Volume Today

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Copa Holdings (CPA) as a weak on high relative volume candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

Copa Holdings

(

CPA

) as a weak on high relative volume candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Copa Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • CPA has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $27.1 million.
  • CPA has traded 107,055 shares today.
  • CPA is trading at 5.91 times the normal volume for the stock at this time of day.
  • CPA is trading at a new low 4.02% below yesterday's close.

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More details on CPA:

Copa Holdings, S.A. provides airline passenger and cargo services in Latin America. It offers services within Colombia; and international flights from various cities in Colombia to Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 6.9%. CPA has a PE ratio of 7. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Copa Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Copa Holdings has been 865,000 shares per day over the past 30 days. Copa has a market cap of $1.6 billion and is part of the services sector and transportation industry. The stock has a beta of 2.37 and a short float of 13.2% with 7.25 days to cover. Shares are down 54.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates Copa Holdings as a

hold

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, feeble growth in the company's earnings per share and deteriorating net income.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.55, 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 0.83 is somewhat weak and could be cause for future problems.
  • CPA, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 6.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 20.1%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
  • COPA HOLDINGS SA's earnings per share declined by 45.1% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share have declined over the last year. We anticipate that this should continue in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, COPA HOLDINGS SA reported lower earnings of $8.15 versus $9.63 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 36.8% in earnings ($5.15 versus $8.15).
  • 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 Airlines industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 45.8% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $118.17 million to $64.10 million.

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