Hot Medical Stocks To Buy Right Now


Afya (AFYA Quick QuoteAFYA ) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.03 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.20 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.15 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.

This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -85%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this medical education company would post earnings of $0.26 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.21, delivering a surprise of -19.23%.

Over the last four quarters, the company has not been able to surpass consensus EPS estimates.

Afya, which belongs to the Zacks Schools industry, posted revenues of $70.29 million for the quarter ended June 2021, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4.84%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $51.11 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates just once over the last four quarters.


The sustainability of the stock’s immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management’s commentary on the earnings call.

Hot Medical Stocks To Buy Right Now: Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc.(PLYM)

Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc. is a vertically integrated and self-managed real estate investment trust focused on the acquisition and operation of single and multi-tenant industrial properties located in secondary and select primary markets across the United States. The Company seeks to acquire properties that provide income and growth that enable the Company to leverage its real estate operating expertise to enhance shareholder value through active asset management, prudent property re-positioning and disciplined capital deployment.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Max Byerly]

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  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    Plymouth Industrial Reit (NYSEAMERICAN:PLYM) posted its earnings results on Thursday. The company reported ($1.38) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($1.29) by ($0.09), Fidelity Earnings reports. The company had revenue of $11.88 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.68 million. Plymouth Industrial Reit had a negative return on equity of 98.43% and a negative net margin of 42.59%.

Hot Medical Stocks To Buy Right Now: Synchronoss Technologies Inc.(SNCR)


Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. provides on-demand transaction management solutions primarily in North America. It offers solutions to manage transactions, including device and service procurement, provisioning, activation, intelligent connectivity management, and content synchronization for communications service providers, cable operators/multi-services operators, original equipment manufacturers with embedded connectivity, and e-Tailers/retailers. The company provides ConvergenceNow, ConvergenceNow Plus+, and InterconnectNow platforms that provide on-demand order processing, transaction management, service provisioning, device activation, intelligent connectivity, and content transfer and synchronization through e-commerce, telesales, enterprise, indirect, and other retail outlet channels. It also offers PerformancePartner Portal, a graphical user interface that allows the entry of transaction data into the gateway; Gateway Manager, which offers the capability to fulfill multiple types of transactions; WorkFlow Manager that provides interaction with third-party relationships, as well as enables customers to have a single transaction view, including data from third-party systems; and Visibility Manager, which offers a centralized reporting platform for intelligent analytics around the workflow, transaction management information, historical trending, and mobile reporting for users to receive critical transaction data on mobile devices. In addition, the company provides Content Synchronization Portal that facilitates content migration across devices from different platforms; Device Client, which offers connectivity for activation, connection management, and content migration and synchronization for feature phones, smartphones, computers, and tablets. It sells its products and services through direct sales force and strategic partners. Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Steve Symington]

    Shares of Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ:SNCR) were down 19.3% as of 3:00 p.m. EDT Wednesday after the cloud-based enterprise computing and messaging company announced weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter 2018 results.

  • [By Motley Fool Transcribing]

    Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ:SNCR) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference CallMarch 12, 2019 5:00 p.m. ET

    Contents:
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    Operator

  • [By Dan Caplinger]

    Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ:SNCR) has gone through a tough couple of years. After seeing its stock suspended from the Nasdaq Stock Market due to delays in amending and preparing financial statements, the cloud computing company has undergone some big internal moves in order to get itself moving in the right direction again.

  • [By Steve Symington]

    Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ:SNCR) stock popped 21.6% on Friday after the cloud-based enterprise computing and messaging specialist announced its common shares have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq, which means they’ll resume trading on the widely followed index when the market opens on Monday, October 1, 2018.

Hot Medical Stocks To Buy Right Now: Powell Industries Inc.(POWL)


Powell Industries, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and servicing of custom engineered-to-order equipment and systems for the management and control of electrical energy and other critical processes in transportation, environmental, energy, industrial, and utility industries. The company operates in two segments, Electrical Power Products and Process Control Systems. The Electrical Power Products segment offers electrical power distribution and control systems that are used to distribute, monitor, and control the flow of electrical energy, as well as to provide protection to motors, transformers, and other electrically-powered equipment. It offers power control room substation packages, traditional and arc-resistant distribution switchgear, medium-voltage circuit breakers, offshore generator and control modules, monitoring and control communications systems, motor control centers, and bus duct systems directly to end-users or to engineering, procuremen t, and construction firms. This segment serves oil and gas producers, oil and gas pipelines, refineries, petrochemical plants, electrical power generators, public and private utilities, co-generation facilities, mining/metals operations, pulp and paper plants, transportation authorities, governmental agencies, and other industrial customers. The Process Control Systems provides technology solutions, including instrumentation, computer controls, and communications and data management systems to control and manage critical processes and facilities; and technical services to deliver these systems. This segment sells its products and services directly to end-users in transportation, environmental, and energy sectors. The company has operations in Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, Africa, North America, South America, and Central America. Powell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Motley Fool Transcribers]

    Powell Industries Inc  (NASDAQ:POWL)Q1 2019 Earnings Conference CallFeb. 06, 2019, 11:00 a.m. ET

    Contents:
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  • [By Shane Hupp]

    Media headlines about Powell Industries (NASDAQ:POWL) have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Powell Industries earned a daily sentiment score of 0.10 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave media coverage about the industrial products company an impact score of 47.4917283321983 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next several days.

  • [By Stephan Byrd]

    US Bancorp DE lifted its stake in shares of Powell Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:POWL) by 16.0% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 13,842 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after buying an additional 1,908 shares during the quarter. US Bancorp DE owned about 0.12% of Powell Industries worth $371,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Hot Medical Stocks To Buy Right Now: John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund(HTY)


John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to provide a high level of total return consisting of a high level of current income and gains and long term capital appreciation. The Fund will seek to achieve favorable after-tax returns for its shareholders by seeking to minimize the federal income tax consequences on income and gains generated by the Fund. Under normal market condition, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of dividend-paying stocks of issuers located around the world. The Fund also intends to write call options on a variety of both U.S. and non-U.S. broad-based indices. It invests in sectors, such as utilities, telecommunication services, consumer staples, financials, industrials, energy, healthcare, information technology, consumer discretionary and materials. The Fund’s investment advisor is John Hancock Advisers, LLC, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation. Its sub-advisors are Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. and Analytic Investors, LLC.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Shane Hupp]

    John Hancock Tax-Advntgd Glbl SH Yld Fd (NYSE:HTY) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 23rd, Wall Street Journal reports. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 14th will be paid a dividend of 0.16 per share on Friday, September 28th. This represents a $0.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 7.68%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 13th.

Hot Medical Stocks To Buy Right Now: Unifirst Corporation(UNF)


UniFirst Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides workplace uniforms and protective work wear clothing in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company designs, manufactures, personalizes, rents, cleans, delivers, and sells a range of uniforms and protective clothing, including shirts, pants, jackets, coveralls, lab coats, smocks, and aprons; and specialized protective wear, such as flame resistant and high visibility garments. It also rents industrial wiping products, floor mats, facility service products, and restroom supplies comprising air fresheners, paper products, and hand soaps, as well as other non-garment items. In addition, the company provides first aid cabinet services and other safety supplies; decontaminates and cleans work clothes that may have been exposed to radioactive materials; and services special clean room protective wear. Further, it offers a range of garment service options, including full-service rental programs in which garment s are cleaned and serviced; lease programs in which garments are cleaned and maintained by individual employees; and purchase programs to buy garments and related items directly. The company serves automobile service centers and dealers, delivery services, food and general merchandise retailers, food processors and service operations, light manufacturers, maintenance facilities, restaurants, service companies, soft and durable goods wholesalers, transportation companies, and others who require employee clothing for image, identification, protection, or utility purposes, as well as government agencies, research and development laboratories, high technology companies, and utilities operating nuclear reactors. The UniFirst Corporation was founded in 1936 and is based in Wilmington, Massachusetts.


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Joseph Griffin]

    UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) and Mobetize (OTCMKTS:MPAY) are both industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.

  • [By Max Byerly]

    Dolphin Entertainment (NYSE: UNF) and UniFirst (NYSE:UNF) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and risk.

  • [By Joseph Griffin]

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