
Today's Strong And Under The Radar Stock: Microsemi (MSCC)
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a strong and under the radar candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Microsemi as such a stock due to the following factors:
- MSCC has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $16.1 million.
- MSCC has traded 27.417899999999999494093572138808667659759521484375 options contracts today.
- MSCC is making at least a new 3-day high.
- MSCC has a PE ratio of 34.
- MSCC is mentioned 0.63 times per day on StockTwits.
- MSCC has not yet been mentioned on StockTwits today.
- MSCC is currently in the upper 20% of its 1-year range.
- MSCC is in the upper 35% of its 20-day range.
- MSCC is in the upper 45% of its 5-day range.
- MSCC is currently trading above yesterday's high.
'Strong and Under the Radar' stocks tend to be worthwhile stocks to watch for a variety of factors including historical back testing and price action. Market technicians refer to such stocks as being in an accumulation phase before a mark-up and peak. Traders and hedge funds have frequently found that these types of stocks continue to build a solid price base and then ultimately spike higher and peak when others 'discover' how good the stock is performing. By leveraging the social discovery aspect of StockTwits we are highlighting stocks that don't currently receive much attention from retail investors, but we suspect may soon garner more attention.
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More details on MSCC:
Microsemi Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. MSCC has a PE ratio of 34. Currently there are 5 analysts that rate Microsemi a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Microsemi has been 504,400 shares per day over the past 30 days. Microsemi has a market cap of $3.1 billion and is part of the technology sector and electronics industry. The stock has a beta of 0.84 and a short float of 2.9% with 5.82 days to cover. Shares are up 16.6% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates Microsemi as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 11.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 8.5%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment industry. The net income increased by 441.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from -$4.29 million to $14.66 million.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to $55.13 million or 1.40% when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of -23.18%.
- MSCC's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.83 is somewhat low overall, but it is high when compared to the industry average, implying that the management of the debt levels should be evaluated further. Despite the fact that MSCC's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 1.99 is high and demonstrates strong liquidity.
- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 400.00% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 27.71% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. We feel that the stock's sharp appreciation over the last year has driven it to a price level which is now somewhat expensive compared to the rest of its industry. The other strengths this company shows, however, justify the higher price levels.
- You can view the full Microsemi Ratings Report.
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