Strong And Under The Radar: Burlington Stores (BURL)
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a strong and under the radar candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Burlington Stores as such a stock due to the following factors:
- BURL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $76.4 million.
- BURL has traded 1724.490000000000009094947017729282379150390625 options contracts today.
- BURL is making at least a new 3-day high.
- BURL has a PE ratio of 27.
- BURL is mentioned 1.35 times per day on StockTwits.
- BURL has not yet been mentioned on StockTwits today.
- BURL is currently in the upper 20% of its 1-year range.
- BURL is in the upper 35% of its 20-day range.
- BURL is in the upper 45% of its 5-day range.
- BURL 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 BURL:
Burlington Stores, Inc. operates as a retailer of branded apparel products in the United States. The company offers fashion-focused merchandise, including women's ready-to-wear apparel, menswear, youth apparel, baby products, footwear, accessories, home decor and gifts, and coats. BURL has a PE ratio of 27. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Burlington Stores a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.
The average volume for Burlington Stores has been 1.4 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Burlington Stores has a market cap of $4.8 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. Shares are up 57% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
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Analysis:
rates Burlington Stores as a
. The area that we feel has been the company's primary weakness has been its poor profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- This stock has increased by 26.89% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. Setting our sights on the months ahead, however, we feel that the stock's sharp appreciation over the last year has driven it to a price level which is now relatively expensive compared to the rest of its industry. The implication is that its reduced upside potential is not good enough to warrant further investment at this time.
- 40.36% is the gross profit margin for BURLINGTON STORES INC which we consider to be strong. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the strong results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 2.91% trails the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 238.97% to $30.38 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, BURLINGTON STORES INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -2.49%.
- BURLINGTON STORES INC reported significant earnings per share improvement 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. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, BURLINGTON STORES INC increased its bottom line by earning $2.03 versus $0.85 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.78 versus $2.03).
- 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 46.0% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $25.70 million to $37.51 million.
- You can view the full Burlington Stores Ratings Report.
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