The asset utilization indicator refers to the revenue earned for every dollar of assets a company currently reports. Five Below has an asset utilization ratio of 427.16 percent. This indicates that the company is making $4.27 for each dollar of assets. An increasing asset utilization means that Five Below is more efficient with each dollar of assets it utilizes for everyday operations.
What is the right price you would pay to acquire a share of Five Below? For most investors, it would be the price that gives them a wide margin of safety to have minimal downside risk. In other words, most investors are always looking for undervalued stocks. Even if the
future performance is not entirely as expected, the loss of holding it is minimized, and the downside risk is negated. Please read more on our
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What is happening with Five Below this year
Annual and quarterly reports issued by Five Below are formal
financial statements that are published yearly and quarterly and sent to Five stockholders. The reports show and break down the current year's ongoing operations and discuss plans for the upcoming year. Annual reports have been a requirement from the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for businesses owned by the public since 1934.
Companies such as Five Below often view their annual report as an effective marketing tool to disseminate their perspective on company
future earnings or innovations. With this in mind, many companies devote large sums of money to making their reports attractive and informative. In such instances, the annual report becomes a forum through which a company can communicate to the general public any number of topics that may or may not be directly related to the actual data published in the reports.
Five Below Gross Profit
Five Below Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Five Below previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Five Below Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Five Below's
gross profit and other
fundamental indicators for more details.
Another angle On Five Below
Earning per share calculations of Five Below is based on official Zacks consensus of 7 analysts regarding Five Below's future annual earnings. Given the historical accuracy of 72.87%, the future earnings per share of the company is estimated to be 1.5678 with the lowest and highest values of 1.25 and 1.94, respectively. Please note that this consensus of annual earnings estimates for the firm is an estimate of EPS before non-recurring items and including employee stock options expenses.
Is Five Below a risky opportunity?
Let's check the volatility. Five Below is looking slightly risky at this time. Whether you invest your money or manage your clients' funds, remember that it is easy to forget that behind Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) stock is an actual business venture. So, do not let stock picking become an abstract concept by ignoring the elementary risk calculations. purchasing a share of a Five Below stock makes you a part-owner of that company.
Five Below Current Consensus
Here is the latest trade recommendation based on an ongoing consensus estimate among financial analysis covering Five Below. The Five Below consensus assessment is calculated by taking the average estimates from all of the analysts covering Five Below
| Strong Buy | 9 | 64.29 |
| Buy | 2 | 14.29 |
| Hold | 3 | 21.43 |
| Sell | 0 | 0.0 |
| Strong Sell | 0 | 0.0 |
Our perspective of the latest Five Below surge
Standard deviation is down to 2.66. It may indicate a possible volatility dip. Five Below currently demonstrates below-verage downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of -0.01 and Jensen Alpha of 0.06. However, we do advice investors to further question Five Below expected returns to ensure all indicators are consistent with the current outlook about its relatively low value at risk.
Our Conclusion on Five Below
Although some other entities within the specialty retail industry are still a little expensive, even after the recent corrections, Five Below may offer a potential longer-term growth to shareholders. To sum up, as of the 2nd of September 2020, our analysis shows that Five Below follows the market closely. The firm is
fairly valued and projects
very low chance of financial distress for the next 2 years. Our up-to-date 30 days buy vs. sell advice on the firm is
Hold.
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Raphi Shpitalnik is a Junior Member of Macroaxis Editorial Board. Raphael is a young entrepreneur who joined Macroaxis on a part-time basis at the beginning of the pandemic and eventually acquired a real taste for investing and fintech. He likes to analyze different equity instruments across a wide range of industries, focusing primarily on consumer products, sports, fintech, cannabis, and AI.
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