Trade-Ideas: General Growth Properties (GGP) Is Today's Post-Market Leader Stock
Trade-Ideas LLC identified General Growth Properties ( GGP) as a post-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified General Growth Properties as such a stock due to the following factors:
- GGP has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $84.4 million.
- GGP is up 3.4% today from today's close.
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More details on GGP: General Growth Properties, Inc is an equity real estate investment trust. The firm invests in the real estate markets of the United States. It engages in owning, managing, leasing, and redeveloping high-quality regional malls. General Growth Properties, Inc is based in Chicago, Illinois. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 2.6%. GGP has a PE ratio of 2. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate General Growth Properties a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold. The average volume for General Growth Properties has been 4.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. General Growth has a market cap of $25.5 billion and is part of the financial sector and real estate industry. The stock has a beta of 0.80 and a short float of 1.2% with 2.08 days to cover. Shares are up 5.7% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
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Analysis:
rates General Growth Properties as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. 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 company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) industry and the overall market, GENERAL GROWTH PPTYS INC's return on equity exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 107.84% to $297.90 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, GENERAL GROWTH PPTYS INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -64.29%.
- 49.09% is the gross profit margin for GENERAL GROWTH PPTYS INC which we consider to be strong. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Despite the strong results of the gross profit margin, GGP's net profit margin of 28.07% significantly trails the industry average.
- After a year of stock price fluctuations, the net result is that GGP's price has not changed very much. Although its weak earnings growth may have played a role in this flat result, don't lose sight of the fact that the performance of the overall market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, was essentially similar. Looking ahead, unless broad bear market conditions prevail, we still see more upside potential for this stock, despite the fact that it has already risen over the past year.
- GGP, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 5.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 2.5%. The declining revenue appears to have seeped down to the company's bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- You can view the full General Growth Properties Ratings Report.
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