Trade-Ideas: Gap (GPS) Is Today's Post-Market Leader Stock
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a post-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Gap as such a stock due to the following factors:
- GPS has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $149.4 million.
- GPS is up 2.4% today from today's close.
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More details on GPS:
The Gap, Inc. operates as an apparel retail company worldwide. It offers apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under the Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta, and Intermix brands. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 4.3%. GPS has a PE ratio of 1. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Gap a buy, 7 analysts rate it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Gap has been 7.7 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Gap has a market cap of $8.5 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. Shares are down 11.8% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
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Analysis:
rates Gap as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The debt-to-equity ratio is somewhat low, currently at 0.69, and is less than that of the industry average, implying that there has been a relatively successful effort in the management of debt levels.
- 39.47% is the gross profit margin for GAP INC which we consider to be strong. Regardless of GPS's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 3.69% trails the industry average.
- 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 Specialty Retail industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 46.9% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $239.00 million to $127.00 million.
- Net operating cash flow has decreased to $168.00 million or 20.37% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing the cash generation rate to the industry average, the firm's growth is significantly lower.
- You can view the full Gap Ratings Report.
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