Trade-Ideas: Autohome (ATHM) Is Today's "Dead Cat Bounce" Stock
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a "dead cat bounce" (down big yesterday but up big today) candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Autohome as such a stock due to the following factors:
- ATHM has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $56.8 million.
- ATHM has traded 325,284 shares today.
- ATHM is up 3.4% today.
- ATHM was down 6.4% yesterday.
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More details on ATHM:
Autohome Inc. operates as an online destination for automobile consumers in the People's Republic of China. ATHM has a PE ratio of 40.4. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Autohome a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.
The average volume for Autohome has been 662,000 shares per day over the past 30 days. Autohome has a market cap of $4.9 billion and is part of the technology sector and internet industry. Shares are up 20.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
Analysis:
rates Autohome as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, robust revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock has had a generally disappointing performance in the past year.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Compared to other companies in the Internet Software & Services industry and the overall market, AUTOHOME INC -ADR's return on equity exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- ATHM's very impressive revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 18.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues leaped by 81.3%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- ATHM has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 3.25, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
- The gross profit margin for AUTOHOME INC -ADR is currently very high, coming in at 84.89%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 33.78% is above that of the industry average.
- ATHM has underperformed the S&P 500 Index, declining 9.53% from its price level of one year ago.
- You can view the full Autohome Ratings Report.
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