Strong On High Relative Volume: Wesco Aircraft Holdings (WAIR)
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a strong on high relative volume candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Wesco Aircraft Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:
- WAIR has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $4.6 million.
- WAIR has traded 160,586 shares today.
- WAIR is trading at 16.74 times the normal volume for the stock at this time of day.
- WAIR is trading at a new high 8.29% above yesterday's close.
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More details on WAIR:
Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. distributes and provides supply chain management services to the aerospace industry in the North America and internationally. WAIR has a PE ratio of 13. Currently there are no analysts that rate Wesco Aircraft Holdings a buy, 3 analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Wesco Aircraft Holdings has been 285,500 shares per day over the past 30 days. Wesco Aircraft has a market cap of $1.1 billion and is part of the services sector and wholesale industry. The stock has a beta of 0.66 and a short float of 5.1% with 7.14 days to cover. Shares are down 18% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
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Analysis:
rates Wesco Aircraft Holdings as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- WAIR's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.96 is somewhat low overall, but it is high when compared to the industry average, implying that the management of the debt levels should be evaluated further. Despite the fact that WAIR's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 1.52 is high and demonstrates strong liquidity.
- WAIR, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 4.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 6.8%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. When compared to other companies in the Transportation Infrastructure industry and the overall market, WESCO AIRCRAFT HOLDINGS INC's return on equity is below that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The gross profit margin for WESCO AIRCRAFT HOLDINGS INC is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 29.65%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 4.46% trails that of the industry average.
- You can view the full Wesco Aircraft Holdings Ratings Report.
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