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Should Value Investors Buy Cable One (CABO) Stock?

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While the proven Zacks Rank places an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find strong stocks, we also know that investors tend to develop their own individual strategies. With this in mind, we are always looking at value, growth, and momentum trends to discover great companies.

Of these, perhaps no stock market trend is more popular than value investing, which is a strategy that has proven to be successful in all sorts of market environments. Value investors use a variety of methods, including tried-and-true valuation metrics, to find these stocks.

On top of the Zacks Rank, investors can also look at our innovative Style Scores system to find stocks with specific traits. For example, value investors will want to focus on the "Value" category. Stocks with high Zacks Ranks and "A" grades for Value will be some of the highest-quality value stocks on the market today.

Cable One (CABO - Free Report) is a stock many investors are watching right now. CABO is currently holding a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and a Value grade of A. The stock is trading with P/E ratio of 4.01 right now. For comparison, its industry sports an average P/E of 6.76. Over the last 12 months, CABO's Forward P/E has been as high as 11.51 and as low as 3.61, with a median of 7.64.

Another notable valuation metric for CABO is its P/B ratio of 0.71. The P/B ratio is used to compare a stock's market value with its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. This stock's P/B looks attractive against its industry's average P/B of 1.29. Over the past year, CABO's P/B has been as high as 1.27 and as low as 0.40, with a median of 0.84.

Value investors also use the P/S ratio. The P/S ratio is calculated as price divided by sales. This is a popular metric because sales are harder to manipulate on an income statement, so they are often considered a better performance indicator. CABO has a P/S ratio of 0.36. This compares to its industry's average P/S of 0.84.

These are only a few of the key metrics included in Cable One's strong Value grade, but they help show that the stock is likely undervalued right now. When factoring in the strength of its earnings outlook, CABO looks like an impressive value stock at the moment.

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