New Lifetime High Reached By Time Warner Cable (TWC)
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Time Warner Cable as such a stock due to the following factors:
- TWC has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $404.3 million.
- TWC has traded 16,027 shares today.
- TWC is trading at a new lifetime high.
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More details on TWC:
Time Warner Cable Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides video, high-speed data, and voice services in the United States. It operates in three segments: Residential Services, Business Services, and Other Operations. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.9%. TWC has a PE ratio of 22.0. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Time Warner Cable a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Time Warner Cable has been 2.0 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Time Warner Cable has a market cap of $44.2 billion and is part of the services sector and media industry. The stock has a beta of 0.98 and a short float of 1.6% with 1.76 days to cover. Shares are up 3.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
Analysis:
rates Time Warner Cable as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, increase in stock price during the past year, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these 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:
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 7.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 3.8%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- TIME WARNER CABLE INC's earnings per share improvement from the most recent quarter was slightly positive. 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, TIME WARNER CABLE INC increased its bottom line by earning $7.17 versus $6.71 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($8.12 versus $7.17).
- The stock has risen over the past year as investors have generally rewarded the company for its earnings growth and other positive factors like the ones we have cited in this report. The stock's price rise over the last year has driven it to a level which is somewhat expensive compared to the rest of its industry. We feel, however, that other strengths this company displays justify these higher price levels.
- Net operating cash flow has increased to $1,810.00 million or 13.19% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, TIME WARNER CABLE INC's cash flow growth rate is still lower than the industry average growth rate of 47.67%.
- 36.96% is the gross profit margin for TIME WARNER CABLE INC which we consider to be strong. Despite the high profit margin, it has decreased significantly from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 9.56% trails the industry average.
- You can view the full Time Warner Cable Ratings Report.
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