EPS growth is an important number as it indicates the future prospects of Evoqua Water Technologies Corp.. The EPS growth rate, as it is usually called, is typically displayed as a percentage, which at this time is hard to estimate, but revenue growth has been -0.90 % over the last twelve months. Growth in EPS is an important measure of administration performance because it shows how much money Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. is making for it’s investors or shareholders.
Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. is part of the industrials sector and industrial products industry. Evoqua Water Technologies Corp is a provider of mission critical water treatment solutions. It operates in three segments namely: Industrial, Municipal and Products.
Previous Intraday Performance:
The AQUA shares had a previous change of 6.53% which opened at 8.53 and closed at 9.14. It moved to an intraday high of 9.24 and a low of 8.47.
Historical Performance:
Over the last five trading days, AQUA shares returned 7.03% and in the past 30 trading days it returned -38.37%. Over three months, it changed -52.15%. In one year it has changed -57.35% and within that year its 52-week high was 25.36 and its 52-week low was 7.92. AQUA stock is 15.40% above its 52 Week Low.
Our calculations result in a 200 day moving average of 18.78 and a 50 day moving average of 13.19. Right now, AQUA stock is trading -51.34% below its 200 day moving average and may not be a great opportunity to buy as it may continue to trend down.
Liquidity:
The company has a market cap of $1.0b with 114.0m shares outstanding and a float of 112.6m shares. Trading volume was 5,033,347 shares and has experienced an average volume of 1,578,592 shares. Our calculation, using the current average volume and close price, leads me to believe that the liquidity is bad, highly speculative and an investor may want to avoid this stock.
Earnings:
The last annual reported EPS for Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. was 0.38 which ended on 30th of September 2018, which according to the previous close, that is a PE of 182.80. Based on 2 analyst estimates, the consensus EPS for the next quarter is 0.17.
Below was the last reported quarterly earnings per share:
09-30-2018: 0.09
06-30-2018: 0.14
03-31-2018: 0.15
Base on our calculations, the intrinsic value per share is 6.29, which means it might overvalued by -45.29%
Indicators Also to Watch:
Based on the latest filings, there is 1.30% of insider ownership and 94.20% of institutional ownership. Short-interest was 3,603,243, which was 3.16% of shares outstanding. The short-interest ratio or days-to-cover ratio was 2.50. This stock has some short interest, but it might be normal and no need to worry if long the position.
I calculated the beta to be 2.42
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Fundamental Numbers:
Based on last reported financials, the company’s return on equity is 2.15%, return on assets is 0.39%, profit margin is 0.59%, price-to-sales is 0.73 and price-to-book is 2.90.
Company Score Card:
Results are out of six:
3 : Growth Expectations Result
1 : Financial Safety Result
4 : Past Performance Result
0 : Valuation Result
0 : Dividend Safety Result
2 : Overall Result
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