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LendingTree, Inc. (TREE)



$64.07
52 Week Low
$140.9
2017-04-28 15:03:38 MDT
$130.2
52 Week High

Basic Info

Financial
Sector
Mortgage Investment
Industry
Nasdaq
Stock Exchange
United States
Country

Market Cap: $1,530,000,000Small Cap (Between $200M and $2B)
Analyst Recommendation:1.5Analysts say: Strong Buy. (1=Strong Buy, 5=Strong Sell)
Beta: 2.13 Higher Volatility Stock (beta over 1). Stock will go up more when the market goes up, and go down more when the market goes down. Beta of 1 means stock would match the S&P 500 Index.

Fundamentals

ForwardPE: 25.54
5 Yr Est Growth: 14.40%
Yield: 0.00%
PEG-Y Ratio: 1.77
Acceptable Value. A PEGY Ratio of less than 1 is ideal.

Technicals

% Above 50 DayMA: 16.36%
% Above 200 DayMA: 31.95%
TREE Performance 52 Weeks: 44.15%
S&P 500 Performance 52 Weeks: 13.50%
Uptrend is still intact: TREE is above both 50 and 200 day Moving Averages. There is hope because 50 Day MA is still above 200 Day MA. Stock is closer to 52 Week High than 52 Week Low.
TREE outperforming S&P 500 by 30.65% the last 52 Weeks. TREE is close to 52 week high.

Profile


More Valuation

Price To Book: 6.48
OK Value. Low Price to Book means better value. A P/B value of 5 or less is great.
EV to EBITDA: 25.62
Not a good value. A low EV to EBITDA ratio is great. Ideally, under 10. Under 17 is okay.

More Info

Field Value Average Comments
% Held By Insiders42.02% 17.28%Held by greater than average Insiders. Insiders can sway stock price. Watch insider buying and selling.
% Held By Institutions52.90% 62.07%Institutional percentage lower than average. Institutions may not have conviction in stock. Or is this a chance for institutions to invest more and boost price?
Short % Of Float30.68% 07.02% Shorted by greater than average percent. Investors and traders do not believe in stock. But watch out for short squeezes pushing stock upwards.
Debt to EquityN/A 1.08Unknown.
Profit Margin %7.15%-00.18% Profit Margin is better than the average! Good job.
Operating Margin %13.87%-05.28% Operating Margin greater than average percent. Good.
Return on Equity %13.21%-08.79% Return on Equity greater than average percent. Good.
Return on Assets %10.76%-01.29% Return on Assets greater than average percent. Good.
Revenue Per Employee $990,721.65 $883,096.70 More than average Revenue Per Employee. This stock (or industry) could be very efficient.
Price to Cash 18.30 5.52 Higher than average Price to Cash. Meaning that the company has a lower percentage of cash as a percent of price. Cash can be good to cushion company during hard times, and as a potential source for buyouts or investments. However, some activists want the cash to be used by a company to buy its own stock, or to increase their dividend, or to invest the money.
CPEGY Ratio 1.67 2.26 Less than than average CPEGY Ratio. Ideally, a CPEGY should be less than 1 or less than 1.5. CPEGY is the PEG Ratio but incorporating the yield and subtracting Cash Per Share.

Quick Thoughts

PROS:
  1. Analysts like this stock: 1.5 (1=Strong Buy, 5=Strong Sell)

  2. Stock is Above Short Term 50DMA: 16.36%

  3. Stock is Above Long Term 200DMA: 31.95%

  4. Stock is closer to 52 week high.
  5. Stock outperforming S&P 500 over last 52 weeks: 30.65%

  6. Profit Margin is positive: 7.15%

  7. Operating Margin is positive: 13.87%

  8. Return on Equity is positive: 13.21%

  9. Return on Assets is positive: 10.76%

CONS:
  1. High Forward PE: 25.54

  2. Price to Cash Ratio (18.30) is greater than average. Company has less cash as a percent of price than the average.

  3. Worse than average EV/EBITDA: 25.62

  4. Shorted more than average: 30.68%


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