StockStory Favors Coherent and ePlus, Flags ICF Weakness
The publisher points to revenue and earnings growth at Coherent, cash-flow gains at ePlus and declining sales and backlog at ICF.
Key takeaways
- StockStory highlighted Coherent’s 23% annual revenue growth over the past two years.
- The publisher cited ePlus’s 8.5% annual revenue growth over five years and a wider free cash flow margin.
- StockStory flagged ICF’s declining sales, backlog and earnings per share.
StockStory identified Coherent and ePlus as business services stocks to watch, while flagging ICF International as a company to avoid. The publisher’s assessment points to growth at the first two and declines in several measures at ICF.
Coherent’s revenue grew 23% annually over the past two years, StockStory said, and the company’s projected revenue growth is 49.4% over the next 12 months. The publisher also cited annual earnings-per-share growth of 83.7% over the past two years. Coherent was trading at $305.40 per share, or 35.7 times forward earnings, in the article.
For ePlus, StockStory highlighted annual revenue growth of 8.5% over five years and a 6.3 percentage-point increase in free cash flow margin over that period. The publisher also said the company had generated market-beating returns on capital. Its shares were priced at $91.61, or 16.8 times forward earnings.
StockStory cited ICF’s annual sales declines of 4.3% over two years, alongside an average 5.7% drop in backlog. It also pointed to falling earnings per share over the same period. The article listed ICF at $86.82 per share and 11.1 times forward earnings.
This article was produced with the help of AI technology. Source: Yahoo Finance
