Union Pacific (UNP) Down In Pre-Market Trading
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market laggard candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Union Pacific as such a stock due to the following factors:
- UNP has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $419.7 million.
- UNP traded 21,445 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 8:59 AM.
- UNP is down 3.8% today from yesterday's close.
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More details on UNP:
Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates railroads in the United States. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 2.3%. UNP has a PE ratio of 18. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Union Pacific a buy, 3 analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Union Pacific has been 4.5 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Union Pacific has a market cap of $79.2 billion and is part of the services sector and transportation industry. The stock has a beta of 0.71 and a short float of 1.5% with 2.08 days to cover. Shares are up 20.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates Union Pacific 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, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The debt-to-equity ratio is somewhat low, currently at 0.74, and is less than that of the industry average, implying that there has been a relatively successful effort in the management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.23, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $2,173.00 million or 5.28% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, UNION PACIFIC CORP has also modestly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -3.36%.
- 45.33% is the gross profit margin for UNION PACIFIC CORP which we consider to be strong. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the strong results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 20.27% trails the industry average.
- UNP, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 13.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 14.0%. 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. When compared to other companies in the Road & Rail industry and the overall market, UNION PACIFIC CORP's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Union Pacific Ratings Report.
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