Trade-Ideas: BP (BP) 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 BP as such a stock due to the following factors:
- BP has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $260.6 million.
- BP traded 56,126 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 9:09 AM.
- BP is down 2.1% today from yesterday's close.
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More details on BP:
BP p.l.c. operates as an integrated oil and gas company worldwide. It operates in three segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Rosneft. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 6.4%. BP has a PE ratio of 5. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate BP a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
The average volume for BP has been 8.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. BP has a market cap of $113.9 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. Shares are down 4.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
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Analysis:
rates BP as a
. Among the primary strengths of the company is its solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have evaluated. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.54, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.00, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- BP, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 33.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 35.5%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- BP PLC 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. The company has reported a trend of declining earnings per share over the past two years. However, the consensus estimate suggests that this trend should reverse in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, BP PLC reported lower earnings of $1.21 versus $7.34 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.17 versus $1.21).
- Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry and the overall market, BP PLC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 272.8% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $3,369.00 million to -$5,823.00 million.
- You can view the full BP Ratings Report.
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