The long-term trend of the EPS is a vital number as it helps understand the future potential of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation. The EPS growth rate, as it is typically called, is usually expressed as a percentage, which at this time is hard to estimate, but revenue growth has been 13.40 % over the last twelve months. The higher the EPS growth rate, the higher the value that is added to shareholders and a good reflection on the performance of the management at Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation is part of the industrial products industry and industrials sector. The company CEO is J. Brett McBrayer. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp and its subsidiaries produces forged hardened steel rolls used in cold rolling by producers of steel, aluminum and other metals throughout the world. Its segments include Forged and Cast Engineered Products and Air and Liquid Processing.
Previous Intraday Performance:
The AP shares had a previous change of 7.23% which opened at 4.01 and closed at 4.30. It moved to an intraday high of 4.30 and a low of 3.90.
SeekingAlpha: Ampco-Pittsburgh’s (AP) CEO Brett McBrayer on Q3 2018 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Historical Performance:
Over the last five trading days, AP shares returned 1.18% and in the past 30 trading days it returned -4.44%. Over three months, it changed -44.16%. In one year it has changed -68.95% and within that year its 52-week high was 15.65 and its 52-week low was 3.55. AP stock is 21.13% above its 52 Week Low.
Our calculations result in a 200 day moving average of 8.44 and a 50 day moving average of 4.78. Right now, AP stock is trading -49.08% below its 200 day moving average and may not be a great opportunity to buy as it may continue to trend down.
SeekingAlpha: Ampco-Pittsburgh’s (AP) CEO Brett McBrayer on Q3 2018 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Liquidity:
The company has a market cap of $53.7m with 12.5m shares outstanding and a float of 11.9m shares. Trading volume was 47,592 shares and has experienced an average volume of 74,386 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 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation was -0.99 which ended on 31st of December 2017. Based on 1 analyst estimate, the estimated EPS for the next quarter is -0.55.
Below was the last reported quarterly earnings per share:
09-30-2018: -0.56
06-30-2018: -0.24
03-31-2018: 0.08
12-31-2017: -0.13
Indicators Also to Watch:
Based on the latest filings, there is 4.90% of insider ownership and 77.30% of institutional ownership. Short-interest was 368,128, which was 2.95% of shares outstanding. The short-interest ratio or days-to-cover ratio was 4.49. 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 2.12
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Fundamental Numbers:
Based on last reported financials, the company’s return on equity is -8.24%, return on assets is -2.21%, profit margin is -2.29%, price-to-sales is 0.11 and price-to-book is 0.62.
Company Score Card:
Results are out of six:
3 : Growth Expectations Result
4 : Financial Safety Result
0 : Past Performance Result
1 : Valuation Result
0 : Dividend Safety Result
2 : Overall Result
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