PNC Financial Services Group (PNC): Stock With Unusual Social Activity

Trade-Ideas LLC identified PNC Financial Services Group (PNC) as an unusual social activity candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

PNC Financial Services Group

(

PNC

) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified PNC Financial Services Group as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • PNC has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 2.71 mentions/day.
  • PNC has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $286.4 million.

Identifying stocks with 'Unusual Social Activity' tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the 'talk of the town' stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn't matter if it's good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment. Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock's price trend.

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More details on PNC:

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. operates as a diversified financial services company in the United States and internationally. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 2.7%. PNC has a PE ratio of 11. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate PNC Financial Services Group a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

The average volume for PNC Financial Services Group has been 2.6 million shares per day over the past 30 days. PNC Financial Services Group has a market cap of $41.0 billion and is part of the financial sector and banking industry. The stock has a beta of 0.82 and a short float of 1.3% with 1.87 days to cover. Shares are down 13.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates PNC Financial Services Group as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and attractive valuation levels. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • Net operating cash flow has increased to $276.00 million or 14.04% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, PNC FINANCIAL SVCS GROUP INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -156.20%.
  • The gross profit margin for PNC FINANCIAL SVCS GROUP INC is currently very high, coming in at 88.40%. Regardless of PNC's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 23.25% trails the industry average.
  • PNC FINANCIAL SVCS GROUP INC' earnings per share from the most recent quarter came in slightly below the year earlier quarter. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. We feel it is likely to report a decline in earnings in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, PNC FINANCIAL SVCS GROUP INC increased its bottom line by earning $7.40 versus $7.30 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 3.5% in earnings ($7.14 versus $7.40).
  • PNC, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 0.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 0.1%. The declining revenue appears to have seeped down to the company's bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.

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