PerkinElmer (PKI) Showing Signs Of Being Strong And Under The Radar
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a strong and under the radar candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified PerkinElmer as such a stock due to the following factors:
- PKI has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $23.7 million.
- PKI is making at least a new 3-day high.
- PKI has a PE ratio of 33.0.
- PKI is mentioned 1.94 times per day on StockTwits.
- PKI has not yet been mentioned on StockTwits today.
- PKI is currently in the upper 20% of its 1-year range.
- PKI is in the upper 35% of its 20-day range.
- PKI is in the upper 45% of its 5-day range.
- PKI is currently trading above yesterday's high.
'Strong and Under the Radar' stocks tend to be worthwhile stocks to watch for a variety of factors including historical back testing and price action. Market technicians refer to such stocks as being in an accumulation phase before a mark-up and peak. Traders and hedge funds have frequently found that these types of stocks continue to build a solid price base and then ultimately spike higher and peak when others 'discover' how good the stock is performing. By leveraging the social discovery aspect of StockTwits we are highlighting stocks that don't currently receive much attention from retail investors, but we suspect may soon garner more attention.
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More details on PKI:
PerkinElmer, Inc. provides products, services, and solutions to the diagnostics, research, environmental, industrial, and laboratory services markets worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Human Health and Environmental Health. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.6%. PKI has a PE ratio of 33.0. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate PerkinElmer a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.
The average volume for PerkinElmer has been 898,900 shares per day over the past 30 days. PerkinElmer has a market cap of $5.3 billion and is part of the health care sector and health services industry. The stock has a beta of 0.25 and a short float of 2.7% with 6.00 days to cover. Shares are up 6.3% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
Analysis:
rates PerkinElmer as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- PKI's revenue growth trails the industry average of 16.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 2.7%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.52, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.08, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- Net operating cash flow has increased to $96.56 million or 34.67% when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of 13.74%.
- Compared to where it was 12 months ago, the stock is up, but it has so far lagged the appreciation in the S&P 500. Turning our attention to the future direction of the stock, it goes without saying that even the best stocks can fall in an overall down market. However, in any other environment, this stock still has good upside potential despite the fact that it has already risen in the past year.
- You can view the full PerkinElmer Ratings Report.
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