A profitable company is able to meet all its operating costs and offer stupendous returns to its investors. Although, a company with strong profitability and weak fundamentals may fail to impress its investors, several studies have highlighted that a profitable entity commonly provides huge returns.
Here we have used the concept of accounting ratios to evaluate a company’s profitability. There are a variety of profitability ratios, from which we have chosen the most common and successful profitability metric to determine the bottom-line performance of a company.
Net Income Ratio
Net income ratio gives us the exact profitability level of a company. It reflects the percentage of net income to total sales revenue. Using net income ratio, one can determine a company’s effectiveness to pay for its operating and non-operating expenses from its revenue. A higher net income ratio usually implies a company’s ability to generate ample revenue and successfully manage all its business functions.
Screening Parameters
Net income ratio is not the only indicator of future winners. So we have added a few more criteria to arrive at a winning strategy.
Zacks Rank Equal to #1: Only Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stocks are allowed. With the Zacks Rank proving itself to be one of the best rating systems out there, this is a great way to start things off. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
12-Month Trailing Sales and Net Income Growth Higher than X Industry: Stocks that possess higher sales and net income growth in the last 12 months showcase better financial performance.
12-Month Trailing Net Income Ratio Higher than X Industry: High net income ratio indicates a company’s solid profitability.
% Rating Strong Buy greater than 70%: This indicates that 70% of the analysts covering these stocks are optimistic.
These few parameters narrowed down the universe of over 7,860 stocks to only 11.
Here are four of the 11 stocks that qualified the screen:
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. PRAH is a contract research organization. It has an average four-quarter positive earnings surprise of 6.9%.
Align Technology, Inc. ALGN is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of a system of clear aligner therapy. It has an average four-quarter positive earnings surprise of 16.6%.
Adobe Systems Incorporated ADBE is a global diversified software company. It has an average four-quarter positive earnings surprise of 7.8%.
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. PARR owns, manages and maintains interests in energy and infrastructure businesses. It has an average four-quarter positive earnings surprise of more than 100%.
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