Dillards (DDS) Reaches New Lifetime High Today
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Dillards as such a stock due to the following factors:
- DDS has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $55.8 million.
- DDS has traded 2,613 shares today.
- DDS is trading at a new lifetime high.
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More details on DDS:
Dillard's, Inc. operates as a fashion apparel, cosmetics, and home furnishing retailer in the United States. The company's stores offer a selection of merchandise, including fashion apparel for women, men, and children; accessories; cosmetics; home furnishings; and other consumer goods. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.2%. DDS has a PE ratio of 17.3. Currently there are no analysts that rate Dillards a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Dillards has been 465,900 shares per day over the past 30 days. Dillards has a market cap of $5.0 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. The stock has a beta of 0.94 and a short float of 4.4% with 2.77 days to cover. Shares are up 7.3% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
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Analysis:
rates Dillards as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and attractive valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- DDS's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 2.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 3.4%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- Investors have apparently begun to recognize positive factors similar to those we have mentioned in this report, including earnings growth. This has helped drive up the company's shares by a sharp 40.71% over the past year, a rise that has exceeded that of the S&P 500 Index. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, DDS should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- DILLARDS INC has improved earnings per share by 17.0% 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 year. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, DILLARDS INC increased its bottom line by earning $7.83 versus $7.13 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($8.65 versus $7.83).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the Multiline Retail industry average, but is less than that of the S&P 500. The net income increased by 9.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $119.10 million to $130.50 million.
- You can view the full Dillards Ratings Report.
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