Chicago, IL – April 16, 2019 – Zacks Equity Research Garmin Ltd. GRMN as the Bull of the Day, Tailored Brands, Inc. TLRD as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Amazon AMZN, China Mobile CHL and Lloyds Banking Group LYG.
Here is a synopsis of all five stocks:
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<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Garmin Ltd. is a tech company that, over the years, has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin has five primary business units: automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation.” data-reactid=”26″>Garmin Ltd. is a tech company that, over the years, has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin has five primary business units: automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation.
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The GPS technology company beat estimates on both the top and bottom line.
Earnings of $1.02 easily surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 79 cents per share, while revenues of $932 million grew 4% year-over-year.
Despite a 28% decline in its automotive segment revenue, Garmin’s aviation, marine, outdoor, and fitness products climbed a combined 13%, which helped offset the automotive underperformance.
Notably, outdoor product revenue grew 25% thanks to Garmin’s adventure watch lines.
In the company’s earnings release, CEO Cliff Pemble said that 2018 was a remarkable year of revenue and operating income growth.” He continued, “Entering 2019, we see many opportunities ahead and believe that we are well positioned to seize these opportunities with a strong lineup of products across all of our segments.”
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Year-to-date, shares of GRMN are up 41% compared to the S&P 500’s return of almost 16%.
Along with strong Q4 results, Garmin announced upbeat forward guidance for 2019.
For full-year 2019, the company projects revenues of $3.5 billion, up from $3.35 billion seen last year and above consensus estimates of $3.43 billion. Earnings are expected to come in at $3.70 per share for the year, well above the $3.52 Wall Street had been looking for.
Estimates, thus, have been rising lately too, pushing the stock towards a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
For the current fiscal year, four analysts have revised their estimate upwards in the past 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has jumped 24 cents during that same time period. Earnings growth is expected to remain positive year-over-year.
2020 looks pretty strong as well, and earnings are expected to grow as well; next year’s consensus estimate has moved 13 cents higher from $3.70 to $3.83, with one upward revision in the last 60 days.
GRMN does report its next quarterly results right at the beginning of May, so be aware that the company’s current outlook could be impacted.
But, thanks to high consumer demand, steady sales and a strong product portfolio, the future is looking bright for Garmin. If you’re an investor looking for a tech stock to add to your portfolio, make sure to keep GRMN on your shortlist.
Bear of the Day:
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Tailored Brands, Inc. is a men’s retailer that specializes in suits and tuxedo rentals, and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company used to be known as The Men’s Wearhouse, and provides customers with a wide range of suiting options including suit separates, sport coats, slacks, dress shirts, sportswear and outerwear, and shoes and accessories.” data-reactid=”43″>Tailored Brands, Inc. is a men’s retailer that specializes in suits and tuxedo rentals, and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company used to be known as The Men’s Wearhouse, and provides customers with a wide range of suiting options including suit separates, sport coats, slacks, dress shirts, sportswear and outerwear, and shoes and accessories.
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After Tailored Brands cut its outlook for the fourth quarter back in January, its Q4 results were mostly expected.
An adjusted loss of 28 cents per share came in slightly higher than the Zacks Consensus, but adjusted revenues of $770 million missed our consensus estimate and declined 10% year-over-year.
Men’s Wearhouse comparable sales for the quarter decreased 3.2%, while JoS A. Bank saw comps fall 0.5%.
As a result, TLRD cut their outlook once again for the first quarter, which was not expected. The retailer now expects adjusted earnings of $0.10 to $0.15 per share, well below analysts’ $0.50 forecast.
Same-store sales at both Men’s Wearhouse and JoS A. Bank is expected to be be down 3% to 5% due to “significant headwinds” like the late Easter holiday, foreign exchange impacts, and current business trends.
Many analysts cut their price targets following this earnings release. For instance, Susan Anderson at B. Riley FBR cut TLRD from $20 to $11 and downgraded the stock to “neutral” from “buy.”
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Analysts have since turned more bearish on Tailored Brands, with two cutting estimates in the last 60 days for the current fiscal year. Earnings are expected to decline roughly 17.3% for the year, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has dropped 55 cents during that same time period from $2.46 to $1.91 per share.
This sentiment has stretched into 2021. While earnings could grow almost 12%, our consensus estimate has dropped significantly in the past two months.
TLRD is now a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell).
Shares of the retailer have fallen over 46% since January. In comparison, the S&P 500 is almost 16% year-to-date.
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Tailored Brands’ management team does have a few strategies in place that, if successful, could help bolster its e-commerce presence and the company’s move towards fresher, more modern product.
TLRD does boast a forward P/E of just under 4X and a dividend yield of 9.7%, but neither of these two factors mean much of anything if the company won’t be able to increase growth on all fronts.
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A new U.S. earnings season makes its major entry this week. 49 S&P 500 firms report their latest Q1 results, including 25 Financial Sector firms.
Don’t forget about international affairs, though, as the domestic earnings scene pops more fully into the headlines.
On Monday, U.S. Trade Rep Robert Lighthizer is set to meet his Japanese trade counterpart in Washington DC.
On Wednesday, Indonesia’s general elections get held and Mainland China’s latest GDP growth print comes out.
That makes the economist in me think: Asia will become a second big focus in the Global Week Ahead. Fully enabled effects from the U.S.-China trade war will begin to reveal themselves, in manifold ways.
Trade war influences can take many shapes.
Firstly, they surely bend company earnings, and depress country trade accounts. Note the negative import and export trade flows from Indonesia out today.
Second, trade war effects are likely visible inside the political situations of many, many locales. Particularly those countries with close ties to the Mainland China economy. Japan’s trade rep visit and Indonesia’s election this week supply two classic examples.
Finally, we will get updates to Europe’s lousy manufacturing PMIs this week. That region delivers the best evidence on a global U.S.-China trade war effect.
Next, I list Reuters’ five world market themes, in order of importance to equities. These most likely dominate thinking for both investors and traders in the Global Week Ahead.
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The focus is on the hotly anticipated U.S. results: First-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected to fall 2.5 percent on the year in what would be the first quarterly decline since 2016. But revenue is expected to rise 4.8 percent.
Those earnings will be crucial to see if the bull market can keep running. Some have argued the Federal Reserve’s patience on rate increases this year as well as stock buybacks will add fuel to the S&P’s rally. Also boosting the S&P 500 Index are the recent performance of the banks and financials, which had suffered more than the broader market in the fourth quarter, when recession fears scared investors away.
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="First out of the blocks was JPMorgan, which reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as higher interest income and gains in its advisory and debt underwriting business offset weakness in trading.” data-reactid=”77″>First out of the blocks was JPMorgan, which reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as higher interest income and gains in its advisory and debt underwriting business offset weakness in trading.
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are all scheduled to release their results in days to come. Large banks have indicated that muted capital market activity at the start of the year caused by sluggish trading volumes will be a drag on overall results. Financials are expected to deliver 1.8 percent earnings growth, according to I/B/E/S Refinitiv.” data-reactid=”78″>Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are all scheduled to release their results in days to come. Large banks have indicated that muted capital market activity at the start of the year caused by sluggish trading volumes will be a drag on overall results. Financials are expected to deliver 1.8 percent earnings growth, according to I/B/E/S Refinitiv.
Share performance may boil down to valuation. For the next 12 months, Goldman Sachs appears the cheapest, with investors paying $8.30 for every dollar in expected earnings, compared with $11.80 for Bank of New York Mellon. The former is the worst-performing stock over the last two years among U.S. banks.
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It’s the start truncated trading — the first of four consecutive shortened trading weeks, as a series of public holidays in Europe begins with Easter. Japanese markets will also be closed for a string of holidays in late April.
The truncated weeks come just as volatility in financial markets has slumped. In equities, the VIX, known as the “fear index,” is close to its lowest levels since October. Foreign exchange price swings have fallen to their lowest for several years, according to the Deutsche Bank Currency Volatility Index.
Even the British pound, long the vent for Brexit-related angst, has turned increasingly calm — and traders are not expecting many big moves for sterling in the months ahead after this week’s six-month Brexit delay.
Caught between mixed economic data releases of recent weeks, a postponement to figuring out how Britain will extricate itself from the European Union until as late as October and elusive progress in the Sino-U.S. trade war have left markets treading water.
But with fewer traders at their desks on fewer days, the rest of April will see heightened risks of a spike in volatility, or even flash crashes, should a surprise hit markets just as calmness descends.
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April manufacturing activity data will give a glimpse of the economic health of the United States and the Eurozone. Chinese GDP data will provide an update on the health of the world’s second-largest economy.
Dismal March PMIs for the United States and Eurozone sent shivers through markets. They were taken as ominous signs for the global economy as international trade tensions hurt factory output.
But robust factory data from Beijing offered hope that efforts to shore up China’s economy are kicking in, which injected further fuel to the global equity rally.
The IHS Markit flash Purchasing Managers’ Index due on April 18 should indicate if that optimism was justified — and if stocks have further upward momentum. China’s first-quarter GDP data is out on April 17.
Many investors say low expectations for first-quarter earnings, dovish central bank policies and hopes for Chinese stimulus and a trade truce between Washington and Beijing are largely priced into equity markets. With all that baked in and investors still scrambling for consensus on what happens over the rest of 2019, there’s a lot riding on that data.
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For all the relief in emerging markets that the Federal Reserve doesn’t expect to raise interest rates anytime soon and that commodity prices are hot again, there are still the troublesome twosome: The Turkish lira and Argentine peso.
The peso has slumped to fresh lows in the past 10 days, although the International Monetary Fund’s unlocking a $10.8 billion tranche of funds helped the battered currency to regain some of its footing.
Meanwhile, nine weeks of losses in the last 10 have the lira sliding back toward six to the dollar, the level that set alarm bells ringing last year.
Ankara’s economic reform plans — announced on Wednesday — failed to impress markets and investor meetings with Finance Minister Berat Albayrak at the IMF and World Bank spring meetings did little to change that.
Ankara’s row with Washington over plans to buy a Russian missile defense system and declines in its FX reserves have only added to the concern of investors still smarting from last month’s pre-election move to temporarily freeze the London lira market.
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The world’s largest and third-largest democracies are going to the polls. Indonesia holds parliamentary and presidential elections on April 17. India’s elections are spread over seven phases and 39 days.
Both countries face similar issues around anti-incumbency and flailing economic growth. Betting on continuity, investors have pumped money into their markets, driving up bonds and stocks.
Polls in Indonesia suggest President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, who faces his opponent from 2014 once again, will not only win re-election but will also emerge with a stronger coalition. Indonesian markets have also always scored well in election years.
So it’s India that investors should be sweating over. Even if the February tensions with neighbor Pakistan have given Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his coalition an edge, the risks are that he will lose his majority and may cobble together a new partnership that could slow down reforms.
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<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="(1) Amazon: The behemoth is back on our Zacks #1 Rank list. The Growth score is A. The Value score is D. It’s ‘only’ a $905B market cap stock now.” data-reactid=”104″>(1) Amazon: The behemoth is back on our Zacks #1 Rank list. The Growth score is A. The Value score is D. It’s ‘only’ a $905B market cap stock now.
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="(2) China Mobile: This major Mainland China stock carries a Zacks VGM score of B, and it is a $201B market cap stock. It will be interesting to see if the GDP growth print — out this week — matters at all to this stock.” data-reactid=”105″>(2) China Mobile: This major Mainland China stock carries a Zacks VGM score of B, and it is a $201B market cap stock. It will be interesting to see if the GDP growth print — out this week — matters at all to this stock.
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="(3) Lloyds Banking Group: Brexit is awful. But it looks like Lloyds earnings fundamentals didn’t miss a beat. This is a global firm, if there is one. Shares price at a very low $3.50 each. The dividend yield is 6.6%. The forward P/E is 8.56.” data-reactid=”106″>(3) Lloyds Banking Group: Brexit is awful. But it looks like Lloyds earnings fundamentals didn’t miss a beat. This is a global firm, if there is one. Shares price at a very low $3.50 each. The dividend yield is 6.6%. The forward P/E is 8.56.
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