Murphy USA (MUSA) Hits New Lifetime High Today
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Murphy USA as such a stock due to the following factors:
- MUSA has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $18.3 million.
- MUSA has traded 2,452 shares today.
- MUSA is trading at a new lifetime high.
EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Get the inside scoop on opportunities in MUSA with the Ticky from Trade-Ideas. See the FREE profile for MUSA NOW at Trade-Ideas
More details on MUSA:
Murphy USA Inc. operates a chain of retail stores in the United States. The company's retail stores offer motor fuel products and convenience merchandise. As of December 31, 2015, it operated 1,335 retail stores located primarily in the Southwest, Southeast, and Midwest United States. MUSA has a PE ratio of 16. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Murphy USA a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Murphy USA has been 327,100 shares per day over the past 30 days. Murphy USA has a market cap of $3.0 billion and is part of the services sector and specialty retail industry. Shares are up 25.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
EXCLUSIVE OFFER: See inside Jim Cramer's multi-million dollar charitable trust portfolio to see the stocks he thinks could be potential winners. Click here to see his holdings for 14-days FREE.
Analysis:
rates Murphy USA as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 307.84% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 35.29% 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, MUSA should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Specialty Retail industry. The net income increased by 274.5% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $22.93 million to $85.87 million.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 123.47% to $76.91 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, MURPHY USA INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -1.78%.
- The debt-to-equity ratio is somewhat low, currently at 0.95, and is less than that of the industry average, implying that there has been a relatively successful effort in the management of debt levels. Although the company had a strong debt-to-equity ratio, its quick ratio of 0.81 is somewhat weak and could be cause for future problems.
- You can view the full Murphy USA Ratings Report.
EXCLUSIVE OFFER: See inside Jim Cramer's multi-million dollar charitable trust portfolio to see the stocks he thinks could be potential winners. Click here to see his holdings for 14-days FREE.