After beating estimates last quarter by $0.08, Rock-Tenn
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts are very bullish on this stock, unanimously backing it as a buy. Analysts like Rock-Tenn better than competitor Temple-Inland overall. Zero out of six analysts rate Temple-Inland a buy compared to seven of seven for Rock-Tenn. Analysts haven't adjusted their rating of Rock-Tenn for the past three months.
- Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $2.53 billion in revenue this quarter. That would represent a rise of 213.6% from the year-ago quarter.
- Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is earnings of $1.57 per share. Estimates range from $1.45 to $1.65.
What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are solidly behind the stock with 95.9% awarding it an "outperform" rating. The community at large agrees with the All-Stars with 94.2% assigning it a rating of "outperform." Fools have embraced Rock-Tenn, though the message boards have been quiet lately with only 54 posts in the past 30 days. Even with a robust four out of five stars, Rock-Tenn's CAPS rating falls a little short of the community's upbeat outlook.
Management:
Revenue has now gone up for three straight quarters. The company's gross margin shrank by 7.4 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue rose 79.1% while cost of sales rose 96.3% to $1.17 billion from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 | Q4 |
Gross Margin | 15.4% | 21.0% | 23.5% | 25.3% |
Operating Margin | 0.8% | 9.0% | 12.5% | 14.0% |
Net Margin | (2.2%) | 4.7% | 6.6% | 11.3% |
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