Today Post Holdings (POST) Hits New Lifetime High

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Post Holdings (POST) as a new lifetime high candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

Post Holdings

(

POST

) as a new lifetime high candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Post Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • POST has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $182.9 million.
  • POST has traded 5,142 shares today.
  • POST is trading at a new lifetime high.

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More details on POST:

Post Holdings, Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells branded and private label ready-to-eat cereal products primarily in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Post Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

The average volume for Post Holdings has been 986,400 shares per day over the past 30 days. Post has a market cap of $5.4 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and food & beverage industry. The stock has a beta of -0.04 and a short float of 9.5% with 2.74 days to cover. Shares are up 36.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates Post Holdings as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • POST's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 16.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 20.7%. 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.
  • Compared to its closing price of one year ago, POST's share price has jumped by 53.32%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, POST should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
  • Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $107.70 million or 6.42% when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of -6.45%.
  • 35.21% is the gross profit margin for POST HOLDINGS 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 0.38% trails the industry average.
  • POST HOLDINGS INC has experienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, POST HOLDINGS INC continued to lose money by earning -$2.47 versus -$7.60 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.26 versus -$2.47).

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