Nike (NKE) Is Today's Momo Momentum Stock
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a momo momentum candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Nike as such a stock due to the following factors:
- NKE has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $590.2 million.
- NKE has a PE ratio of 31.
- NKE is currently in the upper 30% of its 1-year range.
- NKE is in the upper 25% of its 20-day range.
- NKE is in the upper 35% of its 5-day range.
- NKE is currently trading above yesterday's high.
- NKE has experienced a gap between today's open and yesterday's close of 4.9%.
'Momo Momentum' stocks are valuable stocks to watch for a variety of reasons including historical back testing and price action. Market technicians refer to such stocks as being in a mark-up phase before a possible distribution period and price decline. Technical analysts and traders frequently find that the factors referenced above tend to create a temporary burst of strong wind in a stock's sail. Nevertheless, all successful traders must excel at maximizing gains while keeping losses to an absolute minimum. For that reason, the holding period on momo momentum stocks must always be a primary consideration, and this part of the puzzle is ultimately at the discretion of each individual's risk tolerance and portfolio risk management skills.
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More details on NKE:
NIKE, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and sells athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories for men, women, and kids worldwide. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.9%. NKE has a PE ratio of 31. Currently there are 20 analysts that rate Nike a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Nike has been 4.6 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Nike has a market cap of $82.7 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer non-durables industry. The stock has a beta of 0.55 and a short float of 1.2% with 1.40 days to cover. Shares are up 30.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
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Analysis:
rates Nike as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Investors have apparently begun to recognize positive factors similar to those we have mentioned in this report, including earnings growth. This has helped drive up the company's shares by a sharp 31.48% over the past year, a rise that has exceeded that of the S&P 500 Index. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, NKE should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- NIKE INC has improved earnings per share by 22.9% 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, NIKE INC increased its bottom line by earning $3.70 versus $2.98 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.31 versus $3.70).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has greatly exceeded that of the S&P 500, but is less than that of the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry average. The net income increased by 22.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $962.00 million to $1,179.00 million.
- NKE's revenue growth trails the industry average of 15.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 5.4%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- NKE's debt-to-equity ratio is very low at 0.09 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels. To add to this, NKE has a quick ratio of 1.69, which demonstrates the ability of the company to cover short-term liquidity needs.
- You can view the full Nike Ratings Report.
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