On Friday, Following Stocks were among the “Top 100 Gainers” In U.S. Stock Exchange: Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras (NYSE:EBR), National Bank of Greece (NYSE:NBG), Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX), Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (NYSE:SID), 500.com (NYSE:WBAI)
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (ADR) (NYSE:EBR)’s shares picked up 6.79%, and closed at $1.73. The stock has price to sale ratio of 0.28, however, price to book ratio is 0.13. With recent incline, the year-to-date (YTD) performance reflected a -21% decline below last year. During the past month the stocks lose -6.49%, bringing three-month performance to -18.78% and six-month performance to -43.28%. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 4.00. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Centrais Eltricas Brasileiras S.A. Eletrobrs, together with its subsidiaries, generates, transmits, and distributes electricity in Brazil. It projects, builds, and operates generating power plants, and electric power transmission and distribution lines. As of December 31, 2013, it owned and operated 33 hydroelectric plants; 124 thermal plants, counting coal and oil power generation units with an installed capacity of 4,556 Megawatts (MW); and 2 nuclear power plants with an installed capacity of 1,990 MW. The company also operates 64,400 km of transmission lines and 6 power distributors that serve about 3.8 million consumers. In addition, it operates as an electricity trading agent. Centrais Eltricas Brasileiras S.A. Eletrobrs was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Braslia, Brazil.
National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG), raised 11.67%, and closed at $1.34. The company holds the market capitalization of $4.48B. For the last twelve months, the stock was able to keep return on equity at 15.20%, while return on assets at 1.10%, in response to its return on investment at 18.90%. Its 20-day moving average declined -9.18%, below 50-day moving average of -9.07%, below 200-day moving average of -47.88% from the latest market price of $1.34. The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 3.00.(where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
National Bank of Greece S.A., together with its subsidiaries, offers diversified financial services primarily in Greece. The company is involved in retail and commercial banking, investment administration, investment banking, insurance, investment activities, and securities trading activities. It offers demand deposits, savings deposits, and time deposits, and current accounts; investment products; consumer loans, personal loans, mortgage loans, automobile loans, overdraft facilities, and foreign currency loans, in addition to letters of credit and guarantees; credit cards; currency swaps and options; and ATMs. The company also provides financial and investment advisory services, foreign exchange, custody services, and trade finance services; and shipping finance, project finance, leasing, factoring, treasury, private banking, private equity, and brokerage services, in addition to asset administration, counting mutual funds and closed end funds. In addition, it offers life, accident, health, fire, catastrophe, credit, motor, home, and marine hull and cargo insurance products, in addition to general third party liability; maritime and aviation insurance; payment protection insurance and disability insurance; and investment-saving-retirement insurance products, in addition to pensions.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX), enhanced 6.66%, and closed at $18.41. The stock volatility for the week is 5.85%, while for the month remained 4.00%. The company holds consensus target price of $25.53.
If we consider EPS growth of the company, then the company indicated the following observations:
The company showed -1.27 diluted EPS growth for trailing twelve months. However, YTD EPS growth remained - 47.70% and Annual EPS growth for the past 5 years is considered as -19.40%.
The mean recommendation of analysts for this stock is 2.40. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., a natural resource company, engages in the attainment of mineral assets, and oil and natural gas resources. It primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, cobalt, silver, and other metals, in addition to oil and gas. The company operates through North America Copper Mines; South America Mining; Indonesia Mining; Africa Mining; Molybdenum Mines; United States (U.S.) Oil and Gas Operations; Rod & Refining; and Atlantic Copper Smelting & Refining segments. It holds interests in various mines located in the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; Morenci, Bagdad, Safford, Sierrita, Miami, Chino, Tyrone, Henderson, and Climax in North America; Cerro Verde and El Abra in South America; and Tenke Fungurume minerals district in Africa.
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (ADR) (NYSE:SID), rose 6.59%, and closed at $1.78. The company has the market capitalization of $2.53B. The beta value of the stock is 1.81. On the other hand the stock’s volatility for the week is 4.89%, and for the month is 4.84%. The stock’s price to book ratio is 1.38, however price to sale ratio is 0.48. Analyst’s mean recommendation regarding this stock is 3.80. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
Companhia Siderrgica Nacional operates as an integrated steel producer primarily in Brazil. It operates through five segments: Steel, Mining, Cement, Logistics, and Energy. The company primarily produces carbon steel and various steel products for automotive, home appliance, packaging, construction, and steel processing industries. Its products comprise slabs, which are semi-finished products used for processing hot-rolled, cold-rolled or coated coils, and sheet products; hot-rolled products, counting heavy and light-gauge hot-rolled coils and sheets; cold-rolled coils and sheets; galvanized products, such as flat-rolled steel coated with zinc or a zinc-based alloy; and tin mill products, which comprise of flat-rolled low-carbon steel coils or sheets comprising tin plate, tin free steel, low tin coated steel, and black plate products.
500.com Ltd (NYSE:WBAI), rose 10.82%, and closed at $11.06. The company has the market capitalization of $388.74M. On the other hand the stock’s volatility for the week is 12.63%, and for the month is 14.50%. The stock’s price to book ratio is 2.17, however price to sale ratio is 4.16. Analyst’s mean recommendation regarding this stock is 3.00. (where 1=Buy, 5=Sale).
500.com Limited provides online sports lottery services in the People’s Republic of China. It operates as an aggregator and processor of lottery purchase orders from its registered user accounts. The company offers a suite of online lottery services, information, user tools, and virtual community venues. Its lottery sales services comprise individual lottery purchase, lottery pool purchase, automatic tag-along purchase, recurring purchase, and locked-in lottery number purchase services. The company provides its services through its mobile applications to mobile users, in addition to through its online platform. As of December 31, 2013, it had 19.1 million registered user accounts. The company was formerly known as 500wan.com Limited and changed its name to 500.com Limited in October 2013. 500.com Limited was founded in 2001 and is based in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China.
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