Lennox International (LII) Hits New Lifetime High
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Lennox International as such a stock due to the following factors:
- LII has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $79.7 million.
- LII has traded 72,688 shares today.
- LII is trading at a new lifetime high.
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More details on LII:
Lennox International Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets climate control products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.1%. LII has a PE ratio of 26. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Lennox International a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Lennox International has been 415,400 shares per day over the past 30 days. Lennox International has a market cap of $5.9 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and industrial industry. The stock has a beta of 0.99 and a short float of 4.5% with 3.01 days to cover. Shares are up 39.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates Lennox International as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- LII's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 3.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 6.3%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 27.53% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 48.40% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, LII should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- LENNOX INTERNATIONAL INC has improved earnings per share by 27.5% 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, LENNOX INTERNATIONAL INC increased its bottom line by earning $4.28 versus $3.55 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($5.35 versus $4.28).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Building Products industry. The net income increased by 19.0% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $67.40 million to $80.20 million.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 64.29% to $159.20 million when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of 47.11%.
- You can view the full Lennox International Ratings Report.
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