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Clearfield Earnings Before Interest Taxes and Depreciation Amortization EBITDA are projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Earnings Before Interest Taxes and Depreciation Amortization EBITDA were at 32.24 Million. The current year Earnings before Tax is expected to grow to about 31.9 M, whereas Average Assets are forecasted to decline to about 102.7 M. The objective of this story is to give shareholders our take on Clearfield future value. We will discuss the reasons why it could be a game-changer for Clearfield shareholders.
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What can we learn from Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) latest price fluctuation
About 17.0% of Clearfield shares are held by company insiders. Insiders ownership of Clearfield refers to the amount of Clearfield equity owned by Clearfield officers, directors, relatives of the leadership team, or anyone who has access to private information before it's made available to the public. Check out our latest analysis of Clearfield, including its current ownership diagnostics.
There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as Clearfield. Regardless of method or technology, to accurately forecast the stock or bond market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.

Predictive Modules for Clearfield

Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, frequently view the market will even out over time. This tendency of Clearfield's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy. Please use the tools below to analyze the current value of Clearfield in the context of predictive analytics.
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Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as Clearfield. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against Clearfield's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, Clearfield's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy towards taking a position in Clearfield.

How important is Clearfield's Liquidity

Clearfield financial leverage refers to using borrowed capital as a funding source to finance Clearfield ongoing operations. It is usually used to expand the firm's asset base and generate returns on borrowed capital. Clearfield financial leverage is typically calculated by taking the company's all interest-bearing debt and dividing it by total capital. So the higher the debt-to-capital ratio (i.e., financial leverage), the riskier the company. Please check the breakdown between Clearfield's total debt and its cash.

How does Clearfield utilize its cash?

To perform a cash flow analysis of Clearfield, investors first need to understand how to read the cash flow statement. A cash flow statement shows the amount of cash Clearfield is receiving and how much cash it distributes out in a given period. The Clearfield cash flow statement breaks down these inflows and outflows into different buckets, including operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities.
Clearfield Net Cash Flow from Operations is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Net Cash Flow from Operations was at 12.54 Million

What is driving Clearfield Investor Appetite?

Clearfield exhibits above-average semi-deviation for your current time horizon. We encourage investors to investigate Clearfield individually to make sure intended market timing strategies and available technical indicagtors are consistent with their estimates about Clearfield future systematic risk. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Clearfield's stock risk against market volatility during both bullying and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Clearfield's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different stocks as prices fall.

Clearfield Implied Volatility

Clearfield's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Clearfield stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Clearfield's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Clearfield stock will not fluctuate a lot when Clearfield's options are near their expiration.

Returns Breakdown

Return on Investment25.0
Return on Assets0.14
Return on Equity0.16
Return Capital0.27
Return on Sales0.13

Our perspective of the latest Clearfield surge

The value at risk is down to -6.21 as of today. Clearfield exhibits above-average semi-deviation for your current time horizon. We encourage investors to investigate Clearfield individually to make sure intended market timing strategies and available technical indicagtors are consistent with their estimates about Clearfield future systematic risk. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Clearfield's stock risk against market volatility during both bullying and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Clearfield's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different stocks as prices fall.

Clearfield Implied Volatility

Clearfield's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Clearfield stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Clearfield's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Clearfield stock will not fluctuate a lot when Clearfield's options are near their expiration.

Our Final Take On Clearfield

Although many other companies within the communication equipment industry are still a little expensive, even after the recent corrections, Clearfield may offer a potential longer-term growth to shareholders. To conclude, as of the 29th of January 2022, our present 90 days buy-or-sell advice on the firm is Cautious Hold. We believe Clearfield is undervalued with close to average chance of bankruptcy for the next two years.

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Vlad Skutelnik is a Macroaxis Contributor. Vlad covers stocks, funds, cryptocurrencies, and ETFs that are traded in North America, focusing primarily on fundamentals, valuation and market volatility. He has many years of experience in fintech, predictive investment analytics, and risk management. View Profile
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