Trade-Ideas: US Silica Holdings (SLCA) 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 US Silica Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:
- SLCA has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $80.9 million.
- SLCA is up 2.4% today from today's close.
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More details on SLCA:
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. produces and sells commercial silica in the United States. It operates through two segments, Oil & Gas Proppants, and Industrial & Specialty Products. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.5%. SLCA has a PE ratio of 15.3. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate US Silica Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.
The average volume for US Silica Holdings has been 2.7 million shares per day over the past 30 days. US Silica has a market cap of $1.8 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and metals & mining industry. The stock has a beta of 3.42 and a short float of 34.3% with 7.27 days to cover. Shares are up 31.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates US Silica Holdings as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- SLCA's very impressive revenue growth greatly exceeded the industry average of 14.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues leaped by 67.0%. 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 Energy Equipment & Services industry and the overall market, U S SILICA HOLDINGS INC's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
- 36.82% is the gross profit margin for U S SILICA HOLDINGS INC which we consider to be strong. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 13.31% is above that of the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 259.42% to $64.42 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, U S SILICA HOLDINGS INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 4.21%.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Energy Equipment & Services industry. The net income increased by 102.0% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $16.45 million to $33.24 million.
- You can view the full US Silica Holdings Ratings Report.
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