Investment Thesis
The stock of the Deckers Outdoor Corporation (NASDAQ:DECK) is best positioned to return over 22% to its shareholders in the short-term investment horizon, although long-term prospects are much brighter based on the improving company’s business prospects. Despite its excellent performance in the last one year (over 30% run-up), DECK is still undervalued and offers a fair price of $72.
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Business Analysis
The last couple of years have been a real challenge for the consumer goods companies, particularly, the apparel industry due to the restrictive consumer spending and macroeconomic headwinds. Companies’ margins squeezed resulting from low growth in revenues and higher-than-average operating expenditures due to a certain portion of fixed operating expenses in the cost structure. DECK is one of those companies that faced a tough business environment in last few quarters, therefore, observed decreased operating margins.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Renewable Energy Group, Inc.(REGI)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Manikandan Raman]
There also some lesser known clean energy stocks that may witness downward movement on potential Trump win on negative sentiment. They include Pattern Energy Group Inc (NASDAQ: PEGI), Enviva Partners LP (NYSE: EVA), TerraForm Global Inc (NASDAQ: GLBL), Renewable Energy Group Inc (NASDAQ: REGI) and Ameresco Inc (NYSE: AMRC).
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Canfor Corporation (CFPZF)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]
Conifex has been shoring up its balance sheet over the last year, taking advantage of its strong financial performance. Beginning in February 2016, Conifex announced it was settling a $30m convertible debt it had with Canfor (OTCPK:CFPZF) in exchange for a forest license it held that permitted an allowable annual cut of 200,000 cubic meters. In April 2016, it created a joint venture for another one of its forest licenses, which netted it another $20m.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Oasis Petroleum Inc.(OAS)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Shares of Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: OAS) were down 14 percent to $8.60 after the company reported a 32 million share common stock offering. The company announced Delaware Basin acquisition for $946 million and also raised its Q4 production guidance.
- [By Jon C. Ogg]
Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: OAS) rose a whopping 27.8% to $14.98, and the 33.2 million shares was about 2.5 times normal volume. Oasis Petroleum has a 52-week trading range of $3.40 to $15.02 and a consensus analyst price target of $14.54. The company has a total market cap of $3.5 billion.
- [By Paul Ausick]
Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: OAS) is rated a Buy and the price target was lifted to $24. For 2017, the net loss estimate improved from a prior $0.27 per share to $0.23 per share. The 2018 EPS estimate rose from $0.62 to $0.64. Shares closed at $14.13 on Friday. The 52-week range is $5.93 to $14.35, and the consensus 12-month target is $17.87.
- [By Chris Lange]
Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: OAS) shares slid on Tuesday after the company announced that it would be buying into the Delaware Basin. Analysts seemed to applaud this move, despite investors sending shares into the fire. Jefferies raised its price target to $14 from $13, and Morgan Stanley raised its target to $11 from $9. RBC has an Outperform rating and raised its target to $14 from $13, while SunTrust Robinson Humphrey downgraded it to Hold from Buy. Shares were down about 14% at $8.67, in a 52-week range of $6.69 to $16.73.
- [By Craig Jones]
Jon Najarian spoke on CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report” about unusually high options activity in Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NYSE: OAS).
Traders bought around 10,000 contracts of the June 10 calls in the first half of the trading session on Thursday. The trade is unusual because the average options volume in the name is a few hundred contracts. Najarian bought the calls and is planning to hold them for two weeks.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: AltaGas Ltd. (ATGFF)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]
Regulators in California are behind a new business of providing utility-scale back-up battery storage at power generating facilities. Canadian-based AltaGas (OTCPK:ATGFF) recently announced a 10-year Energy Storage Resource Adequacy Purchase Agreement with Southern California Edison SCE, a subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE:EIX). A recap of the scope of the contract is described below, from ATGFF’s press release:
- [By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]
AltaGas (OTCPK:ATGFF) recently announced that it’s going to acquire WGL Holdings (NYSE:WGL). This article will examine the financial side of the transaction. A number of Seeking Alpha authors have written articles on the merger as well, and I suggest that you read them.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Tile Shop Hldgs, Inc.(TTS)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Tile Shop Hldgs, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTS) shares dropped 23 percent to $15.68 after the company reported downbeat Q2 results.
Shares of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) were down 16 percent to $6.09 after the company posted disappointing quarterly earnings. Ericsson posted Q2 operating loss of 1.2 billion Swedish crowns ($145.3 million), versus a year-ago profit of 2.8 billion Swedish crowns.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.(MMC)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Reuters]
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NEW YORK — Walgreen is moving 120,000 employees to a private health insurance exchange from coverage provided directly from carriers, the company will announce Wednesday.
The pharmacy chain will join 17 other large employers on the Aon Hewitt Corporate Health Exchange as part of a growing movement to offer employees fixed dollar amounts to purchase their own plans on such exchanges.
The end-cost to employees depends on the plan chosen, but they typically get more options than under traditional arrangements. Private exchanges mimic the coverage mandated as part of the Affordable Care Act. Enrollment in the public exchanges starts Oct. 1.
“What happens to employer contributions over time? Will they put in as much as they put in the past? These are unanswered questions but potential negatives,” says Paul Fronstin, a senior research associate with the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The benefit to Walgreen and other employers is unknown at this point, as their cost-savings aren’t clear.
Of the 180,000 Walgreen (WAG) employees eligible for health care insurance, 120,000 opted for coverage for themselves and 40,000 family members. Another 60,000 employees, many of them working part-time, weren’t eligible for health insurance.
Aon Hewitt (AON) says other participants in its program include retailer Sears Holding (SHLD) and Darden Restaurants (DRI). These new additions raise enrollment to 330,000 from 100,000 last year, and Aon Hewitt estimates enrollment will jump to 600,000 next year, a fivefold increase from 2012.
By 2017, nearly 20 percent of employees nationwide could get their health insurance through a private exchange, according to Accenture Research (ACN). A recent report by the National Business Group on Health said that 30 percent of large employers are considering moving active employees to exchanges by 2015.
Other major providers of private exchanges include Mercer, a division of Marsh & Mc
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Advantage Lithium Corp. (AVLIF)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]
The other producing lithium miners, and soon to be producers. I have discussed these previously in detail here, here and here. Needless to say, the top 3 producers are non-pure plays (SQM (NYSE:SQM), Albemarle (NYSE:ALB), and FMC Corp. (NYSE:FMC)). The top pure play currently producing miners are Orocobre (ASX:ORE) (OTCPK:OROCF), Tianqi Lithium (SHE:002466), Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium, Galaxy Resources, Mineral Resources [ASX:MIN] (OTC:MALRF), and Neometals [ASX:NMT] (OTC:RRSSF). The near-term producers include Altura Mining [ASX:AJM] (OTCPK:ALTAF), Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) (OTC:PILBF), Kidman Resources (ASX:KDR), Critical Elements, Nemaska Lithium (OTCQX:NMKEF) [TSX:NMX], Lithium Americas (OTCQX:LACDF) [TSX:LAC], Lithium X (OTCQX:LIXXF) (TSXV:LIX), Neo Lithium, and Bacanora Minerals (OTC:BCRMF) [TSXV:BCN], Advantage Lithium (OTCQB:AVLIF) [AAL], European Metals (OTCPK:MNTCF, ASX:EMH, AIM:EMH) and Pure Energy (OTCQB:PEMIF) [PE].
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc.(EGLE)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Shares of Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc (NASDAQ: EGLE) were down 49 percent to $0.381. Eagle Bulk Shipping announced after Wednesday’s close it has reached an agreement with its lenders and holders of its equity to raise $105 million.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation(WAB)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By WWW.MONEYSHOW.COM]
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB) scores highly based on my Warren Buffett-based model, which is based on the book Buffettology, and also the Peter Lynch-inspired approach that uses the method outlined by Lynch in One Up on Wall Street.
Top 10 Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Container Store (The)(TCS)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
Container Store Group Inc (NYSE: TCS) shares shot up 27 percent to $5.29 after the company posted upbeat results for its fourth quarter and issued a strong forecast for FY 2017.
- [By Monica Gerson]
Container Store Group Inc (NYSE: TCS) is expected to post its quarterly earnings at $0.21 per share on revenue of $230.53 million.
J & J Snack Foods Corp (NASDAQ: JJSF) is estimated to post its quarterly earnings at $0.78 per share on revenue of $231.58 million.
