Kohl's (KSS) Showing Unusual Social Activity Today
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Kohl's as such a stock due to the following factors:
- KSS has 12x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 11.19 mentions/day.
- KSS has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $202.5 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 KSS:
Kohl's Corporation operates department stores in the United States. It offers private label, exclusive, and national brand apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty, and home products to children, men, and women customers. The company also sells its products online through Website Kohls.com. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 5.2%. KSS has a PE ratio of 11. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Kohl's a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Kohl's has been 2.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Kohl's has a market cap of $7.2 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. The stock has a beta of 1.11 and a short float of 8.8% with 3.05 days to cover. Shares are down 26.2% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
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Analysis:
rates Kohl's as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, attractive valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 4.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 0.8%. 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.
- The debt-to-equity ratio is somewhat low, currently at 0.86, and is less than that of the industry average, implying that there has been a relatively successful effort in the management of debt levels. Even though the company has a strong debt-to-equity ratio, the quick ratio of 0.26 is very weak and demonstrates a lack of ability to pay short-term obligations.
- KOHL'S CORP's earnings per share declined by 13.7% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has suffered a declining pattern of earnings per share over the past year. However, we anticipate this trend reversing over the coming year. During the past fiscal year, KOHL'S CORP reported lower earnings of $3.50 versus $4.26 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.10 versus $3.50).
- 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. Compared to other companies in the Multiline Retail industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, KOHL'S CORP has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.
- You can view the full Kohl's Ratings Report.
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