TeleCom Provider West Corp Leads ValuEngine Strong Buys
West Corporation (WSTC) offers communication services. The Company provides services which include conferencing and collaboration, unified communications, alerts and notifications, emergency communications, business process outsourcing and telephony/interconnect services. It operates primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Latin America and South America. West Corporation is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
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When we screened for the best 5-Engine STRONG BUY stocks today, the leader was West Corp. These "5-Engine" stocks represent the "best of the best.".
Below is today's more extensive data on WSTC:
RECOMMENDATION: ValuEngine continues its STRONG BUY recommendation on WEST CORP for 2015-07-08. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that WEST CORP has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE P/E Ratio and Sharpe Ratio.
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ValuEngine Forecast |
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Target |
Expected |
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1-Month |
30.37 | 1.31% |
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3-Month |
30.45 | 1.58% |
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6-Month |
30.99 | 3.38% |
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1-Year |
34.71 | 15.79% |
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2-Year |
29.95 | -0.11% |
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3-Year |
25.94 | -13.46% |
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Valuation & Rankings |
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Valuation |
n/a |
Valuation Rank |
 n/a |
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1-M Forecast Return |
1.31% |
1-M Forecast Return Rank |
100 |
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12-M Return |
11.87% |
Momentum Rank |
74 |
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Sharpe Ratio |
0.95 |
Sharpe Ratio Rank |
91 |
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5-Y Avg Annual Return |
20.01% |
5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank |
86 |
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Volatility |
20.98% |
Volatility Rank |
76 |
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Expected EPS Growth |
-11.01% |
EPS Growth Rank |
15 |
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Market Cap (billions) |
2.52 |
Size Rank |
76 |
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Trailing P/E Ratio |
8.92 |
Trailing P/E Rank |
95 |
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Forward P/E Ratio |
10.03 |
Forward P/E Ratio Rank |
85 |
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PEG Ratio |
n/a |
PEG Ratio Rank |
n/a |
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Price/Sales |
1.20 |
Price/Sales Rank |
62 |
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Market/Book |
n/a |
Market/Book Rank |
n/a |
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Beta |
1.23 |
Beta Rank |
37 |
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Alpha |
0.05 |
Alpha Rank |
72 |
VALUATION WATCH: Overvalued stocks now make up 52.71% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 17.73% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Nine sectors are calculated to be overvalued--three by double digits.
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