Pre-Market Activity Shows Heavy Volume And Movement For Total (TOT)
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a pre-market mover with heavy volume candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Total as such a stock due to the following factors:
- TOT has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $53.0 million.
- TOT traded 107,050 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 8:46 AM, representing 10.4% of its average daily volume.
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More details on TOT:
TOTAL S.A. operates as an oil and gas company worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Upstream, Refining & Chemicals, and Marketing & Services. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Total a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Total has been 1.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Total has a market cap of $119.5 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. Shares are down 0.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.
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Analysis:
rates Total as a
. Among the primary strengths of the company is its solid financial position based on a variety of debt and liquidity measures that we have evaluated. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, disappointing return on equity and weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.58, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Although the company had a strong debt-to-equity ratio, its quick ratio of 0.81 is somewhat weak and could be cause for future problems.
- Regardless of the drop in revenue, the company managed to outperform against the industry average of 38.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 32.6%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- The change in net income from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry average, but is less than that of the S&P 500. The net income has decreased by 20.1% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, dropping from $3,335.00 million to $2,663.00 million.
- Current return on equity is lower than its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a clear sign of weakness within the company. Compared to other companies in the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry and the overall market, TOTAL SA's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- Looking at the price performance of TOT's shares over the past 12 months, there is not much good news to report: the stock is down 25.03%, and it has underformed the S&P 500 Index. In addition, the company's earnings per share are lower today than the year-earlier quarter. Despite the heavy decline in its share price, this stock is still more expensive (when compared to its current earnings) than most other companies in its industry.
- You can view the full Total Ratings Report.
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