Unusual Social Activity Around Seagate Technology (STX) Today
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Seagate Technology as such a stock due to the following factors:
- STX has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 22.06 mentions/day.
- STX has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $152.0 million.
Identifying stocks with 'Unusual Social Activity' tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the 'talk of the town' stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn't matter if it's good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment. Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock's price trend.
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More details on STX:
Seagate Technology Public Limited Company designs, manufactures, and sells electronic data storage products in the Asia Pacific, the Americas, and EMEA countries. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 3.6%. STX has a PE ratio of 10.1. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Seagate Technology a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Seagate Technology has been 3.0 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Seagate Technology has a market cap of $19.9 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer hardware industry. The stock has a beta of 2.32 and a short float of 5.1% with 6.52 days to cover. Shares are down 8.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
Analysis:
rates Seagate Technology as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Compared to where it was a year ago today, the stock is now trading at a higher level, reflecting both the market's overall trend during that period and the fact that the company's earnings growth has been robust. Turning our attention to the future direction of the stock, it goes without saying that even the best stocks can fall in an overall down market. However, in any other environment, this stock still has good upside potential despite the fact that it has already risen in the past year.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Computers & Peripherals industry. The net income increased by 118.0% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $428.00 million to $933.00 million.
- STX's revenue growth trails the industry average of 30.9%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 4.8%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 68.57% to $1,443.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of 50.63%.
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC reported lower earnings of $4.52 versus $4.79 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.90 versus $4.52).
- You can view the full Seagate Technology Ratings Report.
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