Heavy Early Morning Activity On WhiteWave Foods (WWAV)
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a pre-market mover with heavy volume candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified WhiteWave Foods as such a stock due to the following factors:
- WWAV has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $114.7 million.
- WWAV traded 372,582 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 7:35 AM, representing 18.4% of its average daily volume.
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More details on WWAV:
The WhiteWave Foods Company, a consumer packaged food and beverage company, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells branded plant-based foods and beverages, coffee creamers and beverages, dairy products and organic salads, and fruits and vegetables in North America and Europe. WWAV has a PE ratio of 37. Currently there are 18 analysts that rate WhiteWave Foods a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
The average volume for WhiteWave Foods has been 1.6 million shares per day over the past 30 days. WhiteWave has a market cap of $8.4 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and food & beverage industry. The stock has a beta of 1.44 and a short float of 5.2% with 4.46 days to cover. Shares are up 20.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates WhiteWave Foods as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, revenue growth, expanding profit margins, notable return on equity and compelling growth in net income. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- WHITEWAVE FOODS CO has improved earnings per share by 26.3% 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 two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, WHITEWAVE FOODS CO increased its bottom line by earning $0.94 versus $0.78 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.40 versus $0.94).
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 16.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 14.1%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- 38.03% is the gross profit margin for WHITEWAVE FOODS CO which we consider to be strong. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the strong results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 4.09% trails the industry average.
- 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 Food Products industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, WHITEWAVE FOODS CO has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.
- The company, on the basis of net income growth from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed compared to the Food Products industry average, but is greater than that of the S&P 500. The net income increased by 27.7% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $33.35 million to $42.60 million.
- You can view the full WhiteWave Foods Ratings Report.
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