TJX Companies (TJX) Leads The Pack In Pre-Market Activity
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified TJX Companies as such a stock due to the following factors:
- TJX has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $325.9 million.
- TJX traded 26,091 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 8:35 AM.
- TJX is up 3.3% today from Friday's close.
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More details on TJX:
The TJX Companies, Inc. operates as an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Marmaxx, HomeGoods, TJX Canada, and TJX International. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.4%. TJX has a PE ratio of 22. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate TJX Companies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
The average volume for TJX Companies has been 3.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. TJX Companies has a market cap of $49.2 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. The stock has a beta of 0.66 and a short float of 1.1% with 1.70 days to cover. Shares are up 2.5% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates TJX Companies as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, notable return on equity and good cash flow from operations. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The stock has not only risen over the past year, it has done so at a faster pace than the S&P 500, reflecting the earnings growth and other positive factors similar to those we have cited here. 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.
- TJX COMPANIES INC has improved earnings per share by 6.5% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, TJX COMPANIES INC increased its bottom line by earning $3.34 versus $3.15 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.44 versus $3.34).
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 11.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 7.9%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
- 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 Specialty Retail industry and the overall market, TJX COMPANIES INC's return on equity exceeds that of the industry average and significantly exceeds that of the S&P 500.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $1,280.78 million or 7.08% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, TJX COMPANIES INC's average is still marginally south of the industry average growth rate of 11.27%.
- You can view the full TJX Companies Ratings Report.
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