Trade-Ideas: Citigroup (C) Is Today's Post-Market Leader Stock
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a post-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Citigroup as such a stock due to the following factors:
- C has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $1.1 billion.
- C is up 2.4% today from today's close.
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More details on C:
Citigroup Inc., a diversified financial services holding company, provides various financial products and services for consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.1%. C has a PE ratio of 24.1. Currently there are 16 analysts that rate Citigroup a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Citigroup has been 20.4 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Citigroup has a market cap of $160.6 billion and is part of the financial sector and banking industry. The stock has a beta of 1.84 and a short float of 1.2% with 1.74 days to cover. Shares are down 5.3% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
Analysis:
rates Citigroup as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 1537.12% to $27,291.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, CITIGROUP INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 303.29%.
- Regardless of the drop in revenue, the company managed to outperform against the industry average of 3.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 2.5%. 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. Compared to other companies in the Commercial Banks industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, CITIGROUP INC underperformed against that of the industry average and is significantly less than that of the S&P 500.
- The gross profit margin for CITIGROUP INC is rather low; currently it is at 22.63%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 1.66% trails that of the industry average.
- You can view the full Citigroup Ratings Report.
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