ADT trades as part of the consulting and outsourcing industry and industrials sector. The company CEO is James D. DeVries. ADT Inc provides monitored security, interactive home and business automation and related monitoring services.
Previous Intraday Performance:
The ADT shares had a previous change of -0.48% which opened at 6.25 and closed at 6.19. It moved to an intraday high of 6.28 and a low of 6.14.
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Historical Performance:
Over the last five trading days, ADT shares returned 1.98% and in the past 30 trading days it returned -6.50%. Over three months, it changed -23.63%. In one year it has changed -18.65% and within that year its 52 week high was 9.84 and its 52 week low was 5.88. ADT stock is 5.30% above its 52 week low.
Our calculations result in a 200 day moving average of 7.46 and a 50 day moving average of 6.48. Right now, ADT stock is trading -17.02% below its 200 day moving average and may not be a great opportunity to buy as it may continue to trend down.
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Liquidity:
The company has a market cap of $4.7b with 756.8m shares outstanding and a float of 747.2m shares. Trading volume was 1,850,699 shares and has experienced an average volume of 2,339,355 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 ADT was -0.81 which ended on 31st of December 2018. Based on 2 analyst estimates, the consensus EPS for the next quarter is 0.31.
Below was the last reported quarterly diluted earnings per share:
| 1st | Qtr 2019 | -0.09 |
|---|---|---|
| 4th | Qtr 2018 | -0.20 |
| 3rd | Qtr 2018 | -0.31 |
| 2nd | Qtr 2018 | -0.09 |
| 1st | Qtr 2018 | -0.22 |
The dividend per share is currently 0.14, which is a dividend yield of 2.26%.
Base on our calculations, the intrinsic value per share is 10.74, which means it might be undervalued and has a margin of safety of 42.35%.
EPS growth is an important number as it indicates the future prospects of ADT; 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 2.20% over the last twelve months.
Indicators Also to Watch:
Short-interest was 29,960,757, which was 3.96% of shares outstanding. The short-interest ratio or days-to-cover ratio was 13.29. This stock has some short interest, but it might be normal and no need to worry if long the position.
The beta was calculated to be 1.05.
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Fundamental Numbers:
Based on last reported financials, the company’s return on equity is -12.26%, return on assets is -3.11%, profit margin is -11.08%, price-to-sales is 1.00 and price-to-book is 1.13.
Company Score Card:
Results are out of six:
3 : Growth Expectations Result
2 : Financial Safety Result
0 : Past Performance Result
3 : Valuation Result
2 : Dividend Safety Result
2 : Overall Result
Related Tags: ADT, Consulting And Outsourcing, Industrials
