Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Is Today's Unusual Social Activity Stock
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Walgreens Boots Alliance as such a stock due to the following factors:
- WBA has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 9.74 mentions/day.
- WBA has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $493.6 million.
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More details on WBA:
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. operates as a pharmacy-led health and wellbeing company. The company operates through three segments: Retail Pharmacy USA, Retail Pharmacy International, and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.7%. WBA has a PE ratio of 28. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Walgreens Boots Alliance a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Walgreens Boots Alliance has been 4.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Walgreens Boots Alliance has a market cap of $89.7 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. The stock has a beta of 1.28 and a short float of 1.1% with 1.61 days to cover. Shares are down 1.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates Walgreens Boots Alliance as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 0.9%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 13.6%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 80.16% to $2,353.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of 33.77%.
- WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC has experienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from 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, WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC increased its bottom line by earning $4.02 versus $2.00 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.49 versus $4.02).
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.48, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Despite the fact that WBA's debt-to-equity ratio is low, the quick ratio, which is currently 0.64, displays a potential problem in covering short-term cash needs.
- The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. When compared to other companies in the Food & Staples Retailing industry and the overall market, WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC's return on equity is below that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Walgreens Boots Alliance Ratings Report.
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