Trade-Ideas: Apple (AAPL) Is Today's Pre-Market Laggard Stock
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market laggard candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Apple as such a stock due to the following factors:
- AAPL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $5.7 billion.
- AAPL traded 290,795 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 7:48 AM.
- AAPL is down 2.1% today from Friday's close.
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More details on AAPL:
Apple Inc. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.7%. AAPL has a PE ratio of 13. Currently there are 23 analysts that rate Apple a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Apple has been 58.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Apple has a market cap of $674.2 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer durables industry. The stock has a beta of 1.00 and a short float of 1.5% with 1.86 days to cover. Shares are up 9.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates Apple as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, robust revenue growth and notable return on equity. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Looking at where the stock is today compared to one year ago, we find that it is not only higher, but it has also clearly outperformed the rise in the S&P 500 over the same period. Although other factors naturally played a role, the company's strong earnings growth was key. 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.
- APPLE INC has improved earnings per share by 38.0% 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. During the past fiscal year, APPLE INC increased its bottom line by earning $9.20 versus $6.43 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($9.91 versus $9.20).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has greatly exceeded that of the S&P 500, but is less than that of the Computers & Peripherals industry average. The net income increased by 31.4% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $8,467.00 million to $11,124.00 million.
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 25.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 22.3%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- Current return on equity exceeded its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of strength within the company. When compared to other companies in the Computers & Peripherals industry and the overall market, APPLE INC's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Apple Ratings Report.
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