Exelixis (EXEL) In A Perilous Reversal
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a "perilous reversal" (up big yesterday but down big today) candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Exelixis as such a stock due to the following factors:
- EXEL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $18.7 million.
- EXEL has traded 1.1 million shares today.
- EXEL is down 3.2% today.
- EXEL was up 5.5% yesterday.
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More details on EXEL:
Exelixis, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops small molecule therapies for the treatment of cancer in the United States. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Exelixis a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Exelixis has been 3.9 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Exelixis has a market cap of $572.0 million and is part of the health care sector and drugs industry. The stock has a beta of 0.74 and a short float of 52.8% with 8.13 days to cover. Shares are up 114.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
Analysis:
rates Exelixis as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself, weak operating cash flow and feeble growth in its earnings per share.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- EXEL's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 60.73%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- Net operating cash flow has declined marginally to -$58.01 million or 1.77% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite a decrease in cash flow of 1.77%, EXELIXIS INC is in line with the industry average cash flow growth rate of -6.63%.
- EXELIXIS INC has improved earnings per share by 11.1% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. We feel it is likely to report a decline in earnings in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, EXELIXIS INC reported poor results of -$1.32 versus -$0.91 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 6.8% in earnings (-$1.41 versus -$1.32).
- The company, on the basis of net income growth from the same quarter one year ago, has underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and greatly underperformed compared to the Biotechnology industry average. The net income increased by 6.8% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from -$67.12 million to -$62.56 million.
- EXEL's revenue growth trails the industry average of 37.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 15.1%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- You can view the full Exelixis Ratings Report.
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