Itron Stock Story

ITRI

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USD 52.60 1.11 2.07%

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Why analysts lower the entity buy or sell consensus to Hold? Itron Inc is scheduled to announce its earnings tomorrow. The next financial report is expected on the 2nd of May 2022. Because some of us are getting excited about technology space, it makes sense to concentrate on Itron Inc in greater detail. What exactly are Itron shareholders getting in June? Analysts now have less confidence in Itron Inc as compared to a month ago. The current buy or sell recommendation of 9 analysts is Hold.

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Should you continue to hold Itron (NASDAQ:ITRI) based on the current analyst consensus?

The company retains a Market Volatility (i.e., Beta) of 1.3823, which attests to a somewhat significant risk relative to the market. Let's try to break down what Itron's beta means in this case. As the market goes up, the company is expected to outperform it. However, if the market returns are negative, Itron will likely underperform. Even though it is essential to pay attention to Itron Inc current price history, it is always good to be careful when utilizing equity current price movements. Our philosophy towards determining any stock's future performance is to check both, its past performance charts as well as the business as a whole, including all available technical indicators. Itron Inc exposes twenty-one different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate its performance. Itron Inc has an expected return of -0.36%. Please be advised to check out Itron variance, value at risk, as well as the relationship between the Value At Risk and skewness to decide if Itron Inc performance from the past will be repeated at some point in the near future.

What is the right price you would pay to acquire a share of Itron? 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.

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What is happening with Itron Inc this year

Annual and quarterly reports issued by Itron Inc are formal financial statements that are published yearly and quarterly and sent to Itron 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 Itron 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.

How does Itron utilize its cash?

To perform a cash flow analysis of Itron, investors first need to understand how to read the cash flow statement. A cash flow statement shows the amount of cash Itron is receiving and how much cash it distributes out in a given period. The Itron cash flow statement breaks down these inflows and outflows into different buckets, including operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities.

Itron Net Cash Flow from Operations is most likely to decrease significantly in the upcoming years. The last year's value of Net Cash Flow from Operations was reported at 154.79 Million

Sale by Marcolini John F of 199 shares of Itron

Legal trades by Itron insiders are very common, as founders, directors, or employees of any publicly traded firm often have stock or stock options. These trades are made public in the United States through the filing of Form 4 of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Below entry was recorded recently and is publicly available as an insider trade:

Itron insider trading alert for sale of common stock by Marcolini John F, SVP Networked Solutions, on 6th of July 2022. This event was filed by Itron Inc with SEC on 2022-07-06. Statement of changes in beneficial ownership - SEC Form 4 [view details]

Note, although insider trading is legal, in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany, for mandatory reporting purposes, corporate insiders are defined as a company's officers, directors, and any beneficial owners of more than 10% of a class of the company's equity securities.

A Deeper Perspective

Average experts consensus on the stock has changed. Currently, most analysts have less confidence in Itron as compared to a month ago. The current buy or sell recommendation of 9 analysts is Hold. Earning per share calculations of Itron is based on official Zacks consensus of 4 analysts regarding Itron's future annual earnings. Given the historical accuracy of 51.06%, the future earnings per share of the company is estimated to be 1.2 with the lowest and highest values of 1.07 and 1.44, 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 Itron a risky opportunity?

Let's check the volatility. Itron 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 Itron (NASDAQ:ITRI) stock is an actual business venture. So, do not let stock picking become an abstract concept by ignoring the elementary risk calculations. locking in a share of an Itron stock makes you a part-owner of that company.

Itron Inc Current Consensus

Here is the current trade recommendation based on an ongoing consensus estimate among financial analysis covering Itron Inc. The Itron consensus assessment is calculated by taking the average estimates from all of the analysts covering Itron

Strong Buy

Hold

Strong Buy	4	44.44
Buy	0	0.0
Hold	5	55.56
Sell	0	0.0
Strong Sell	0	0.0

Will Itron price drop impact its balance sheet?

The maximum drawdown is down to 18.35 as of today. Itron Inc exhibits very low volatility with skewness of -0.97 and kurtosis of 3.49. However, we advise investors to further study Itron Inc technical indicators to make sure all market info is available and is reliable. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Itron'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 Itron'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.

Itron Implied Volatility

Itron's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Itron Inc stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Itron'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 Itron stock will not fluctuate a lot when Itron's options are near their expiration.

Our Final Perspective on Itron

While many of the other players in the scientific & technical instruments industry are either recovering or due for a correction, Itron may not be performing as strong as the other in terms of long-term growth potentials. To conclude, as of the 1st of May 2022, we believe that at this point, Itron is very steady with very low chance of bankruptcy within the next 2 years. From a slightly different point of view, the entity appears to be undervalued. Our final 90 days buy-or-sell advice on the company is Strong Hold.

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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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