For new and old investors, taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals.
Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.
Different than growth or momentum investors, value-focused investors are all about finding good stocks at good prices, and discovering which companies are trading under what their true value is before the broader market catches on. The Value Style Score utilizes ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow to help pick out the most attractive and discounted stocks.
Select Medical is a healthcare company with approximately 53,800 employees throughout the United States. It owns long-term acute care and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, as well as occupational health and physical therapy clinics.
SEM boasts a Value Style Score of A and VGM Score of B, and holds a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) rating. Shares of Select Medical are trading at a forward earnings multiple of 18.1X, as well as a PEG Ratio of 1.8, a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 10.8X, and a Price/Sales ratio of 0.7X.
A company's earnings performance is important for value investors as well. For fiscal 2024, three analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for SEM, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.13 to $2.16 per share. SEM also holds an average earnings surprise of 24.2%.
Investors should take the time to consider SEM for their portfolios due to its solid Zacks Ranks, notable earnings and valuation metrics, and impressive Value and VGM Style Scores.
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