NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Southwestern Energy Corp. are falling by 4.45% to $25.96 on heavy volume in mid-afternoon trading on Monday, as Southwestern joins the number of other energy and oil related stocks declining today along with the price of oil. Crude oil for February delivery is down by 5.18% to $49.96 on the NYMEX this afternoon. So far today, 9.20 million shares of Southwestern Energy have exchanged hands, as compared to its average daily volume of 7.42 million shares. Exclusive Report: Jim Cramer's Best Stocks For 2015 STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more. Oil prices touched new five and a half year lows this morning. Oil prices are slumping today amid the global supply glut and a strengthening dollar. As the currency grows it can bring down dollar dominated commodities. The dollar was up by 0.17% on the Wall Street Journal dollar index at last check. Since June, oil prices have fallen by close to 50%. In November, OPEC announced that it will not be reducing its production output, despite the oversupply. Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO (SWN) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock has had a generally disappointing performance in the past year." Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows: The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 6.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 6.9%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share. SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO has improved earnings per share by 13.2% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO turned its bottom line around by earning $2.00 versus -$2.03 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($2.29 versus $2.00). The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.42, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Despite the fact that SWN's debt-to-equity ratio is low, the quick ratio, which is currently 0.54, displays a potential problem in covering short-term cash needs. 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 Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY CO has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500. SWN's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 30.62%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Turning toward the future, the fact that the stock has come down in price over the past year should not necessarily be interpreted as a negative; it could be one of the factors that may help make the stock attractive down the road. Right now, however, we believe that it is too soon to buy. You can view the full analysis from the report here: SWN Ratings Report STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more.
Click to view a price quote on SWN. Click to research the Energy industry.
from Latest TSC Headlines http://ift.tt/14ejsiN
No comments:
Post a Comment