Rock-bottom prices don’t always mean rock-bottom businesses. The stocks we’re examining today have all touched their 52-week lows, creating a classic investor’s dilemma: bargain opportunity or value trap?
Price charts only tell part of the story. Our team at StockStory evaluates each company’s underlying fundamentals to separate temporary setbacks from structural declines. Keeping that in mind, here are two stocks where you should be greedy instead of fearful and one where the skepticism is well-placed.
One Stock to Sell:
GoDaddy (GDDY)
One-Month Return: -10.8%
Known for its memorable Super Bowl commercials that put it on the map, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is a domain registrar and web services provider that helps entrepreneurs establish an online presence through domain registration, website building, hosting, and e-commerce tools.
Why Should You Dump GDDY?
- Offerings struggled to generate meaningful interest as its average billings growth of 3.6% over the last year did not impress
- Estimated sales growth of 5.9% for the next 12 months implies demand will slow from its two-year trend
- Operating profits and efficiency rose over the last year as it benefited from some fixed cost leverage
GoDaddy is trading at $79.42 per share, or 1.9x forward price-to-sales. Check out our free in-depth research report to learn more about why GDDY doesn’t pass our bar.
Two Stocks to Watch:
HubSpot (HUBS)
One-Month Return: -8.5%
Born from the idea that traditional interruptive marketing was becoming less effective, HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) provides an integrated platform that helps businesses attract, engage, and manage customer relationships through marketing, sales, service, and content management tools.
Why Are We Fans of HUBS?
- Winning new contracts that can potentially increase in value as its billings growth has averaged 22.3% over the last year
- Prominent and differentiated software leads to a premier gross margin of 83.7%
- Fast payback periods on sales and marketing expenses allow the company to invest heavily and onboard many customers concurrently
At $181.17 per share, HubSpot trades at 2.4x forward price-to-sales. Is now a good time to buy? Find out in our full research report, it’s free.
Core & Main (CNM)
One-Month Return: -3.4%
Formerly a division of industrial distributor HD Supply, Core & Main (NYSE: CNM) is a provider of water, wastewater, and fire protection products and services.
Why Are We Positive on CNM?
- Annual revenue growth of 14.7% over the past five years was outstanding, reflecting market share gains this cycle
- Share repurchases over the last two years enabled its annual earnings per share growth of 13.5% to outpace its revenue gains
- Free cash flow margin expanded by 8.9 percentage points over the last five years, providing additional flexibility for investments and share buybacks/dividends
Core & Main’s stock price of $47.13 implies a valuation ratio of 15.6x forward P/E. Is now the time to initiate a position? See for yourself in our full research report, it’s free.
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