Should I hold on to my Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) position?

Let's try to go over what's happening with Hubbell amid unprecedented political, and economic uncertainty. Hubbell is currently traded for 133.94. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.07. The average price elasticity to hype of competition is about -0.09. The firm is forecasted to increase in value after the next headline, with the price going to jump to 134.0. The current volatility of media hype impact on the company stock price is is way over 100 percent making price predictions on social media along less reliable. The price jump on the next news is estimated to be 0.04%, whereas the daily expected return is currently at 0.17%. The volatility of related hype on Hubbell is about 436.4% with expected price after next announcement by competition of 133.85 Given the investment horizon of 30 days, the next forecasted press release will be in about 8 days.
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Reviewed by Raphi Shpitalnik

The asset utilization indicator refers to the revenue earned for every dollar of assets a company currently reports. Hubbell has an asset utilization ratio of 143.05 percent. This suggests that the company is making $1.43 for each dollar of assets. An increasing asset utilization means that Hubbell is more efficient with each dollar of assets it utilizes for everyday operations.
The successful prediction of Hubbell stock price could yield a significant profit to investors. But is it possible? The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that all published stock prices of traded companies, such as Hubbell, already reflect all publicly available information. This academic statement is a fundamental principle of many financial and investing theories used today. However, the typical investor usually disagrees with a 'textbook' version of this hypothesis and continually tries to find mispriced stocks to increase returns. We use internally-developed statistical techniques to arrive at the intrinsic value of Hubbell based on Hubbell hews, social hype, general headline patterns, and widely used predictive technical indicators. We also calculate exposure to Hubbell's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Hubbell's related companies.

Use Technical Analysis to project Hubbell expected Price

Hubbell technical stock analysis exercises models and trading practices based on price and volume transformations, such as the moving averages, relative strength index, regressions, price and return correlations, business cycles, stock market cycles, or different charting patterns.
A focus of Hubbell technical analysis is to determine if market prices reflect all relevant information impacting that market. A technical analyst looks at the history of Hubbell trading pattern rather than external drivers such as economic, fundamental, or social events. It is believed that price action tends to repeat itself due to investors' collective, patterned behavior. Hence technical analysis focuses on identifiable price trends and conditions. More Info...

Hubbell Gross Profit

Hubbell Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Hubbell 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 Hubbell Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Hubbell's gross profit and other fundamental indicators for more details.

Breaking down Hubbell Further

Hubbell reported the previous year's revenue of 4.59 B. Net Income was 402.1 M with profit before overhead, payroll, taxes, and interest of 1.38 B.
 2017 2018 2019 2020 (projected)
Consolidated Income249.9 M366.1 M407.4 M384.56 M
Direct Expenses2.52 B3.18 B3.24 B2.7 B

Cost of Revenue Breakdown

Hubbell Cost of Revenue is increasing over the years with slightly volatile fluctuation. Cost of Revenue is expected to dwindle to about 3 B. Cost of Revenue usually refers to the aggregate cost of goods produced and sold and services rendered during the reporting period. Hubbell Cost of Revenue is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The past year's Cost of Revenue was at 3.24 Billion
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
20132.11 Billion
20142.25 Billion
20152.3 Billion
20162.4 Billion
20172.51 Billion
20183.18 Billion
20193.24 Billion
20203.04 Billion

Will Hubbell growth be viable after the build-up?

Variance is down to 4.96. It may suggest a possible volatility slip. Hubbell currently demonstrates below-verage downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of 0.0 and Jensen Alpha of -0.03. However, we do advice investors to further question Hubbell expected returns to ensure all indicators are consistent with the current outlook about its relatively low value at risk.

Our Final Perspective on Hubbell

Whereas many other companies under the electrical equipment & parts industry are still a bit expensive, Hubbell may offer a potential longer-term growth to investors. With a relatively neutral outlook on the current economy, it is better to hold off any trading of Hubbell as the current risk-reward utility is not appealing enough. Please use our equity advice module to run different scenarios to ensure your current risk level and investment horizon are fully reflective of your current investing preferences in regards to Hubbell.

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