Michael Kors Holdings (KORS) Is Today’s Unusual Social Activity Stock

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Michael Kors Holdings ( KORS) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Michael Kors Holdings as such a stock due to the following factors:

• KORS has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 65.13 mentions/day.

• KORS has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $447.8 million.

Identifying stocks with ‘Unusual Social Activity’ tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the ‘talk of the town’ stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment. Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock’s price trend.

More details on KORS:

Michael Kors Holdings Limited is engaged in the design, marketing, distribution, and retailing of branded women’s apparel and accessories, and men’s apparel. The company operates in three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Licensing. KORS has a PE ratio of 15. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Michael Kors Holdings a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Michael Kors Holdings has been 2.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Michael Kors has a market cap of $12.4 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer non-durables industry. The stock has a beta of 1.30 and a short float of 5.4% with 1.09 days to cover. Shares are down 19.3% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

TheStreetRatings.com Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Michael Kors Holdings as a buy. The company’s strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

• The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 11.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 29.9%. Growth in the company’s revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
• KORS has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 3.64, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
• The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry and the overall market, MICHAEL KORS HOLDINGS LTD’s return on equity significantly exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
• MICHAEL KORS HOLDINGS LTD has improved earnings per share by 33.3% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, MICHAEL KORS HOLDINGS LTD increased its bottom line by earning $3.21 versus $1.97 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.30 versus $3.21).
• The company, on the basis of net income growth from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly outperformed against the S&P 500 and exceeded that of the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry average. The net income increased by 32.2% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $229.64 million to $303.68 million.

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