Beacon Roofing Supply (NASDAQ:BECN) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report released on Monday. The firm presently has a $41.00 price target on the stock. Zacks Investment Research’s target price points to a potential upside of 12.54% from the stock’s previous close.
According to Zacks, “Although shares of Beacon Roofing have underperformed its industry in the past year, earnings estimates for fiscal 2019 have remained stable, while that of fiscal 2020 moved up in the past 30 days, reflecting analyst's optimism over the company's earnings growth potential. Beacon Roofing's focus on significant cost synergies is likely to aid in the near term. Moreover, the company is expected to gain from Allied Building Products acquisition. Also, it remains focused on investing for its employees with additional tools and training that are enhancing productivity. However, rising raw material prices of asphalt, steel and gypsum, inbound flatbed rates as well as outbound costs, including diesel and other delivery expenses, are pressing concerns.”
Best Small Cap Stocks For 2021: Four Corners Property Trust, Inc.(FCPT)
Four Corners Property Trust, Inc., incorporated on July 2, 2015, is a self-administered company, which is engaged in the ownership, acquisition and leasing of restaurant properties. The Company’s business is conducted through its subsidiaries, Four Corners Operating Partnership, LP (Four Corners OP) and Four Corners GP, LLC (Four Corners GP). The Company operates through two segments: real estate operations and restaurant operations. It owns over 424 properties in the United States. Of these properties, 418 are held for investment. These 418 properties have an aggregate leasable area of approximately 3,287,000 square feet, which are located in over 44 states. The remaining over six properties are operated by the Kerrow Restaurant Operating Business as LongHorn Steakhouses. Of approximately six LongHorn SteakHouse restaurant properties located in the San Antonio area, over three properties are leased to its subsidiary, Kerrow Holdings, LLC (together with its subsidiaries Kerrow), and approximately three are owned by Kerrow. Kerrow is the Company’s taxable REIT subsidiary (TRS).
The Company’s real estate operations segment consists of rental revenues generated by leasing restaurant properties to tenants through triple-net lease arrangements, under which the tenant is responsible for ongoing costs relating to the properties. It also includes expenses associated with continuing efforts to invest in additional restaurant and food service real estate properties and its corporate operating expenses. The Company’s restaurant operations segment is conducted through its TRS and consists of its Kerrow Restaurant Operating Business. The associated sales revenues, restaurant expenses and overhead, and depreciation on the six buildings and equipment are components of restaurant operations.
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- [By Shane Hupp]
Boenning Scattergood set a $30.00 target price on Four Corners Property Trust (NYSE:FCPT) in a research report released on Friday morning. The firm currently has a buy rating on the financial services provider’s stock.
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FCPT Closes 46 Chilis Restaurant Properties for $149.8 million as part of Previously Announced Brinker Sale-Leaseback Transaction (finance.yahoo.com) FCPT Announces Acquisition of a Buffalo Wild Wings Restaurant Property for $1.7 million (finance.yahoo.com) Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT) vs. Sutherland Asset Management (SLD) Head to Head Analysis (americanbankingnews.com) FCPT Announces Acquisition of an Arbys Restaurant Property for $1.6 million (finance.yahoo.com) Four Corners Property Trust Inc (FCPT) Expected to Post Quarterly Sales of $35.62 Million (americanbankingnews.com)
Shares of Four Corners Property Trust traded down $0.16, hitting $26.01, during trading hours on Friday, according to MarketBeat Ratings. The stock had a trading volume of 360,648 shares, compared to its average volume of 479,703. The company has a current ratio of 6.59, a quick ratio of 6.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.90. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.13 and a beta of -0.04. Four Corners Property Trust has a 12-month low of $21.28 and a 12-month high of $26.96.
Best Small Cap Stocks For 2021: Royal Dutch Shell PLC(RDS.A)
Royal Dutch Shell plc (shell), incorporated on February 5, 2002, is an independent oil and gas company. The Company explores for crude oil and natural gas across the world, both in conventional fields and from sources, such as tight rock, shale and coal formations. The Company is engaged in the principal aspects of the oil and gas industry in approximately 70 countries. The Company operates in three segments: Upstream, Downstream and Corporate. Its Upstream segment focuses on exploration for new crude oil and natural gas reserves and on developing new projects. In Downstream, the Company focuses on turning crude oil into a range of refined products, which are moved and marketed around the world for domestic, industrial and transport use. The Company sells various products, which include gasoline, diesel, heating oil, aviation fuel, marine fuel, liquefied natural gas (LNG) for transport, lubricants, bitumen and sulfur. It also produces and sells ethanol from sugar cane in Brazil.
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The Company’s Upstream segment combines the operating segments Upstream International and Upstream Americas. The Company extracts bitumen from mined oil sands, which the Company converts into synthetic crude oil. The Company liquefies natural gas by cooling it and transports LNG to customers around the world. It also converts natural gas to liquids (GTL) to provide fuels and other products, and it markets and trades crude oil and natural gas (including LNG) in support of its Upstream businesses. Shell subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates are involved in all aspects of upstream activities, including matters, such as land tenure, entitlement to produced hydrocarbons, production rates, royalties, pricing, environmental protection, social impact, exports, taxes and foreign exchange. The conditions of the leases, licenses and contracts under, which oil and gas interests are held vary from country to country.
The Company’s Upstream International business manages Shell’s Upstream! activities outside the Americas. The Company explores for and extracts crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, transports oil and gas, and operates the upstream and midstream infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to market. Upstream International also manages the LNG and GTL businesses outside the Americas, and markets and trades natural gas, including LNG, outside the Americas. It manages its operations primarily by line of business, with this structure overlaying country organizations. The Company’s Upstream Americas business manages Shell’s Upstream activities in North and South America. Upstream Americas also extracts bitumen from oil sands that is converted into synthetic crude oil. It manages the LNG business in the Americas, including assets in Peru and Trinidad and Tobago. It also markets and trades natural gas in the Americas. In addition, it manages the United States wind business.
Downstream
The Company’s Downstream business manages Shell’s oil products activities, consisting refining, trading and supply, pipelines and marketing, and chemicals activities. In addition, the Company produces and sells petrochemicals for industrial use across the world. Its marketing activities include retail, lubricants, business-to-business (B2B) and alternative energies. In trading and supply, the Company trades crude oil, oil products and petrochemicals, to optimize feedstock for refining and chemicals, to supply its marketing businesses and third parties. The Company has interests in over 20 refineries across the world with the capacity to process a total of approximately 3.1 million barrels of crude oil per day. Trading and supply trades in physical and financial contracts, lease storage and transportation capacities, and manages shipping and wholesale commercial fuel activities globally. Across approximately 100 countries, the Company produces, markets or sells lubricants for passenger cars, motorcycles, trucks and coaches, and for industrial machinery in the ma! nufacturi! ng, mining, power generation, agriculture and construction sectors.
The Company has a global lubricants supply chain with a network of over eight base oil manufacturing plants, 40 lubricant blending plants, 10 grease plants and four gas-to-liquids base oil storage hubs. Through its marine activities, the Company primarily provides lubricants along with fuels and related technical services, to the shipping and maritime sectors. Its B2B activities encompass the sale of fuels and specialty products and services to a range of commercial customers. Its plants produce a range of base chemicals, including ethylene, propylene and aromatics, as well as intermediate chemicals, such as styrene monomer, propylene oxide, solvents, detergent alcohols, ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol. It has capacity to produce approximately six million tons of ethylene a year.
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- [By Garrett Baldwin]
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Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) unveiled its highly anticipated streaming service on Thursday. The service, Disney+, will launch Nov. 12 and cost $6.99 per month or $69 per year. The service will include television shows and films from its extended universe of programming – including the Star Wars and Marvel series. Disney said that all of its new films will be available on the service as soon as their theatrical windows have ended. In merger news, Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) announced plans to purchase Anadarko Petroleum Corp.(NYSE: APC) as the oil major continues to push into the U.S. shale business. Shares of APC popped 32% in pre-market hours after Chevron announced the $33 billion bid. This is the largest energy merger since 2016 after Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (NYSE: RDS.A) purchased BG Group. The news sent shares of companies that operate in the Permian basin in West Texas even higher this morning. Look for other earnings reports from PNC Financial Services Group Inc.(NYSE: PNC) and Infosys Ltd.(NASDAQ: INFY).
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (NYSE: RDS.A) pays a 5.83% dividend yield and is an excellent buy right now. Shell has a perfect Money Morning Stock VQScore of 4.75, putting it right in the “Buy Zone.”
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(NYSE:RDS.A) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallJan. 31, 2019 9:00 a.m. ET
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Earlier this year, Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (NYSE: RDS.A) spent $217 million to buy a 44% stake in Silicon Ranch Corp., a major U.S. solar developer. Shell is committing $1 billion a year to clean energy investments.
Best Small Cap Stocks For 2021: Empire Resorts Inc.(NYNY)
Empire Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the hospitality and gaming industries in New York. The company owns and operates Monticello Casino and Raceway, a video gaming machine and harness horseracing facility that conducts pari-mutuel wagering through the running of live harness horse races, the import simulcasting of harness and thoroughbred horse races, and the export simulcasting of its races to offsite pari-mutuel wagering facilities. It operates approximately 1,090 video gaming machines and 20 electronic table games at Monticello Casino and Raceway. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Monticello, New York.
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- [By Max Byerly]
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