If NTELOS Holdings
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts strongly back NTELOS Holdings, with seven of eight rating it a buy and the remainder rating it a hold. Analysts like NTELOS Holdings better than competitor Shenandoah Telecommunications Company overall. Analysts still rate the stock a moderate buy, but they are a bit more wary about it compared to three months ago.
- Wall Street Earnings Expectations: The average analyst estimate is earnings of $0.33 per share. Estimates range from $0.29 to $0.39.
What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are solidly behind the stock with 100% assigning it an "outperform" rating. The community at large concurs with the All-Stars with 96% giving it a rating of "outperform." Fools have embraced NTELOS Holdings, though the message boards have been quiet lately with only 43 posts in the past 30 days. NTELOS Holdings has a bullish CAPS rating of five out of five stars that is about on par with the Fool community assessment.
Management:
NTELOS Holdings' income has fallen year over year by an average of 19.4% over the past five quarters. Revenue has now gone up for three straight quarters. The company's gross margin shrank by 2.7 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue rose 16.8% while cost of sales rose 27% to $52.3 million from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q2 | Q1 | Q4 | Q3 |
Gross Margin | 66.1% | 66.0% | 66.9% | 67.5% |
Operating Margin | 20.2% | 20.3% | 19.1% | 22.9% |
Net Margin | 8.3% | 6.9% | 6.1% | 8.1% |
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