Exelon (EXC) Is Today's Unusual Social Activity Stock
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Exelon as such a stock due to the following factors:
- EXC has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 10.48 mentions/day.
- EXC has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $238.6 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 EXC:
Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, engages in the energy generation and delivery businesses in the United States. It owns electric generating facilities, such as nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generation facilities, as well as wind and solar photovoltaic facilities. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 3.8%. EXC has a PE ratio of 17.6. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Exelon a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Exelon has been 6.7 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Exelon has a market cap of $28.4 billion and is part of the utilities sector and utilities industry. The stock has a beta of 0.37 and a short float of 9.7% with 11.50 days to cover. Shares are down 12% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
Analysis:
rates Exelon as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in stock price during the past year and reasonable valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- EXC's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 9.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 17.7%. 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.
- Compared to where it was a year ago today, the stock is now trading at a higher level, regardless of the company's weak earnings results. Despite the fact that it has already risen in the past year, there is currently no conclusive evidence that warrants the purchase or sale of this stock.
- The gross profit margin for EXELON CORP is rather low; currently it is at 20.36%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 0.26% trails that of the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $814.00 million or 58.23% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing the cash generation rate to the industry average, the firm's growth is significantly lower.
- You can view the full Exelon Ratings Report.
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