Investing 101: Rallying Stocks With Solid DuPont Trends
When it comes to investing, are you a follower of momentum ideas? If so, the following information may be of interest to you.
To create our list we started with a universe of stocks with market caps over $300 million that are rallying above their 20, 50, and 200 day moving averages (MA).
Next, we performed a DuPont analysis, breaking the Return on Equity (ROE) equation into three parts:
All of the stocks mentioned below have seen rising ROE values during the recent quarter.
Want clarification on these terms, as well as their implications? Let's take a closer look:
Momentum investing aims to capitalize on the continuance of existing trends and the strength behind it.
Rallying: When a stock is rallying it means it is performing above its moving average for a given time period. It is presented as a % of performance relative to the average. When a stock is performing above its 20-day moving average (MA) as well as its 50 and 200 day moving averages, it signals bullish momentum. All the stocks in this list are rallying above their 20, 50, and 200-day MA.
Return on Equity (ROE) is a widely-used profitability measure. In general, the higher the ROE the more profitable the company appears. The problem with this is that profitability can come from many sources ? some better than others.
In the 1920s, the DuPont Corporation developed a useful equation that breaks down ROE into three components.
Net profit margin reflects cost structure, asset efficiency reflects productivity, and financial leverage is use of debt. Increases in any of the three can contribute to increased ROE.
In general, an encouraging DuPont breakdown implies one or more of the following:
??? Improving Net Profit Margin, i.e. higher Net Income/ Revenues??? Improving Asset Efficiency, i.e. higher Sales/Assets??? Decreasing Financial Leverage ratio, i.e. lower Assets/Equity
In other words, it is preferable for ROE to rise because of higher net profit margins or asset efficiency. Increasing financial leverage, which would increase ROE, is not always a positive development for a company.
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Now that you're prepared, let's take a look at the list below. Use it as a starting-off point in your own analysis.?
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1. Visa, Inc. (V, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Business Services Industry. Market cap of $70.13B. The stock is currently trading at 4.55% above its 20-Day SMA, 3.88% above its 50-Day SMA, and 13.33% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 43.28% from 35.29% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.07 from 0.06, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.32 from 1.33. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 7.85% over the last week.
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2. Mastercard Incorporated (MA, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Business Services Industry. Market cap of $41.34B. The stock is currently trading at 3.16% above its 20-Day SMA, 6.92% above its 50-Day SMA, and 23.40% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 36.47% from 33.55% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.18 from 0.18, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.65 from 1.81. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 8.39% over the last week.
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3. Monsanto Co. (MON, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Agricultural Chemicals Industry. Market cap of $37.80B. The stock is currently trading at 3.17% above its 20-Day SMA, 0.10% above its 50-Day SMA, and 3.40% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 18.94% from 12.96% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.18 from 0.16, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.69 from 1.73. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 7.09% over the last week.
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4. Southern Company (SO, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Electric Utilities Industry. Market cap of $35.02B. The stock is currently trading at 2.99% above its 20-Day SMA, 3.15% above its 50-Day SMA, and 7.85% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 13.71% from 12.51% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.08 from 0.08, while Assets/Equity decreased to 3.10 from 3.21. The stock has gained 15.9% over the last year.
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5. Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): REIT Industry. Market cap of $33.82B. The stock is currently trading at 3.11% above its 20-Day SMA, 0.65% above its 50-Day SMA, and 8.66% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 19.79% from 16.26% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.04 from 0.04, while Assets/Equity decreased to 5.12 from 5.21. The stock has gained 31.01% over the last year.
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6. priceline.com Incorporated (PCLN, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): General Entertainment Industry. Market cap of $25.06B. The stock is currently trading at 3.58% above its 20-Day SMA, 1.15% above its 50-Day SMA, and 8.32% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 23.25% from 14.98% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.33 from 0.31, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.69 from 1.77. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 12.14% over the last week.
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7. NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Electric Utilities Industry. Market cap of $23.38B. The stock is currently trading at 5.32% above its 20-Day SMA, 1.69% above its 50-Day SMA, and 4.64% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 14.64% from 11.61% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.07 from 0.07, while Assets/Equity decreased to 3.66 from 3.79. The stock has gained 6.95% over the last year.
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8. Public Storage (PSA, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Market cap of $20.50B. The stock is currently trading at 4.91% above its 20-Day SMA, 4.25% above its 50-Day SMA, and 11.32% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 47.47% from 30.67% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.05 from 0.04, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.08 from 1.11. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 5.41% over the last week.
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9. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PEG, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Diversified Utilities Industry. Market cap of $16.70B. The stock is currently trading at 6.10% above its 20-Day SMA, 4.70% above its 50-Day SMA, and 6.36% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 13.08% from 9.49% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.09 from 0.08, while Assets/Equity decreased to 2.85 from 3.15. The stock has gained 7.42% over the last year.
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10. Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Insurance Brokers Industry. Market cap of $15.74B. The stock is currently trading at 5.10% above its 20-Day SMA, 0.83% above its 50-Day SMA, and 3.73% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 9.63% from 9.06% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.19 from 0.17, while Assets/Equity decreased to 2.30 from 2.60. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 6.45% over the last week.
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(List compiled by Becca Lipman and Daniel Guttridge. ROE data sourced from Google Finance, all other data sourced from Finviz.)
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priceline.com Incorporated (PCLN, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
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Investing 101: Rallying Stocks With Solid DuPont Trends
When it comes to investing, are you a follower of momentum ideas? If so, the following information may be of interest to you.
To create our list we started with a universe of stocks with market caps over $300 million that are rallying above their 20, 50, and 200 day moving averages (MA).
Next, we performed a DuPont analysis, breaking the Return on Equity (ROE) equation into three parts:
All of the stocks mentioned below have seen rising ROE values during the recent quarter.
Want clarification on these terms, as well as their implications? Let's take a closer look:
Momentum investing aims to capitalize on the continuance of existing trends and the strength behind it.
Rallying: When a stock is rallying it means it is performing above its moving average for a given time period. It is presented as a % of performance relative to the average. When a stock is performing above its 20-day moving average (MA) as well as its 50 and 200 day moving averages, it signals bullish momentum. All the stocks in this list are rallying above their 20, 50, and 200-day MA.
Return on Equity (ROE) is a widely-used profitability measure. In general, the higher the ROE the more profitable the company appears. The problem with this is that profitability can come from many sources ? some better than others.
In the 1920s, the DuPont Corporation developed a useful equation that breaks down ROE into three components.
Net profit margin reflects cost structure, asset efficiency reflects productivity, and financial leverage is use of debt. Increases in any of the three can contribute to increased ROE.
In general, an encouraging DuPont breakdown implies one or more of the following:
??? Improving Net Profit Margin, i.e. higher Net Income/ Revenues??? Improving Asset Efficiency, i.e. higher Sales/Assets??? Decreasing Financial Leverage ratio, i.e. lower Assets/Equity
In other words, it is preferable for ROE to rise because of higher net profit margins or asset efficiency. Increasing financial leverage, which would increase ROE, is not always a positive development for a company.
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Now that you're prepared, let's take a look at the list below. Use it as a starting-off point in your own analysis.?
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1. Visa, Inc. (V, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Business Services Industry. Market cap of $70.13B. The stock is currently trading at 4.55% above its 20-Day SMA, 3.88% above its 50-Day SMA, and 13.33% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 43.28% from 35.29% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.07 from 0.06, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.32 from 1.33. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 7.85% over the last week.
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2. Mastercard Incorporated (MA, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Business Services Industry. Market cap of $41.34B. The stock is currently trading at 3.16% above its 20-Day SMA, 6.92% above its 50-Day SMA, and 23.40% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 36.47% from 33.55% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.18 from 0.18, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.65 from 1.81. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 8.39% over the last week.
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3. Monsanto Co. (MON, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Agricultural Chemicals Industry. Market cap of $37.80B. The stock is currently trading at 3.17% above its 20-Day SMA, 0.10% above its 50-Day SMA, and 3.40% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 18.94% from 12.96% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.18 from 0.16, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.69 from 1.73. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 7.09% over the last week.
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4. Southern Company (SO, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Electric Utilities Industry. Market cap of $35.02B. The stock is currently trading at 2.99% above its 20-Day SMA, 3.15% above its 50-Day SMA, and 7.85% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 13.71% from 12.51% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.08 from 0.08, while Assets/Equity decreased to 3.10 from 3.21. The stock has gained 15.9% over the last year.
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5. Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): REIT Industry. Market cap of $33.82B. The stock is currently trading at 3.11% above its 20-Day SMA, 0.65% above its 50-Day SMA, and 8.66% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 19.79% from 16.26% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.04 from 0.04, while Assets/Equity decreased to 5.12 from 5.21. The stock has gained 31.01% over the last year.
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6. priceline.com Incorporated (PCLN, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): General Entertainment Industry. Market cap of $25.06B. The stock is currently trading at 3.58% above its 20-Day SMA, 1.15% above its 50-Day SMA, and 8.32% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 23.25% from 14.98% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.33 from 0.31, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.69 from 1.77. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 12.14% over the last week.
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7. NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Electric Utilities Industry. Market cap of $23.38B. The stock is currently trading at 5.32% above its 20-Day SMA, 1.69% above its 50-Day SMA, and 4.64% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 14.64% from 11.61% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.07 from 0.07, while Assets/Equity decreased to 3.66 from 3.79. The stock has gained 6.95% over the last year.
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8. Public Storage (PSA, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Market cap of $20.50B. The stock is currently trading at 4.91% above its 20-Day SMA, 4.25% above its 50-Day SMA, and 11.32% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 47.47% from 30.67% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.05 from 0.04, while Assets/Equity decreased to 1.08 from 1.11. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 5.41% over the last week.
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9. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PEG, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Diversified Utilities Industry. Market cap of $16.70B. The stock is currently trading at 6.10% above its 20-Day SMA, 4.70% above its 50-Day SMA, and 6.36% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 13.08% from 9.49% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.09 from 0.08, while Assets/Equity decreased to 2.85 from 3.15. The stock has gained 7.42% over the last year.
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10. Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC, Earnings, Analysts, Financials): Insurance Brokers Industry. Market cap of $15.74B. The stock is currently trading at 5.10% above its 20-Day SMA, 0.83% above its 50-Day SMA, and 3.73% above it 200-Day SMA. MRQ Net Profit Margin increased to 9.63% from 9.06% from the previous year, Sales/Assets increased to 0.19 from 0.17, while Assets/Equity decreased to 2.30 from 2.60. The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 6.45% over the last week.
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(List compiled by Becca Lipman and Daniel Guttridge. ROE data sourced from Google Finance, all other data sourced from Finviz.)
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Dig Deeper: Access Company Snapshots, Charts, Filings
Visa, Inc. (V, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Mastercard Incorporated (MA, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Monsanto Co. (MON, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Southern Company (SO, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
priceline.com Incorporated (PCLN, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Public Storage (PSA, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PEG, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC, Chart, Download SEC Filings)
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Data integration technique could help researchers find missing links among medical conditions
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Danish scientists have devised a new way to connect the dots between diseases. Integrating data mining that extracts information from clinicians? notes with protein and genetic information can reveal connections between health problems as seemingly unrelated as migraines and hair loss, or glaucoma and a hunching back, researchers report August 25 in PLoS Computational Biology.
Besides generating new leads about the molecular workings of disease, the approach is also revealing a much richer portrait of each patient, says study coauthor S?ren Brunak of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby and the University of Copenhagen.
Using the World Health Organization?s codes for classifying diseases, researchers generated a map that linked more than 4,700 patients at Denmark?s largest psychiatric hospital by their diagnoses. The team integrated these data with information gleaned from a text mining algorithm that combed through 10 years? worth of clinicians? notes ?? an average of 25,000 words per patient.
More than 800 pairs of health problems turned up more than twice as often as expected by chance. Ninety-three of those pairs were then flagged by a doctor as being especially intriguing. Investigations into the genes and proteins associated with some of these unusual pairs revealed previously unknown connections, such as overlapping molecular machinery or pathways.
For example, the team identified nine patients diagnosed with both migraine and alopecia, or hair loss. The researchers discovered a potential cellular target of a protein that had already been implicated in hair loss by investigating the protein?s connection to migraines. In addition, the scientists realized that the gluten allergy known as celiac disease has been associated with hair loss and migraines ? and also has been linked to schizophrenia.
Brunak and his colleagues say they have yet to draw major conclusions about the implicated proteins and mechanisms.
In many places, including the United States, medical codes are used mostly for billing and reimbursement and they may relate only to the current hospital visit. The notes clinicians make are a much richer resource but might not be read by other clinicians pressed for time. Integrating these notes with the codes reveals much more about the patient?s history and condition, says Brunak.
?In a split second you get an idea about where that patient is in treatment,? he says. As more individualized genetic data become available, that patient information will be even richer, further personalizing medicine, he adds. ?In the end what we hope for is to approach it from both ends ? the patient?s records and genomic data.?
Clinical notes are a huge source of information, says St?phane Meystre, a specialist in biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. ?This approach clusters information in a much more detailed way.?
It may be decades before a really personalized approach becomes the norm, Meystre says. Electronic record keeping hasn?t been widely adopted, he says, and knowing about an underlying molecular link doesn?t mean a treatment is available. But efforts like the current approach are already launching hypotheses about diseases and treatments.
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