Consider This Before Taking a Position in Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO)

By Naomi Wentworth • Thursday, March 16 12:03 • Permanent Link

Academy Sports and Outdoors marked a -0.1% change today, compared to 1.2% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $59.91? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc., is a retailer of sporting goods and outdoor recreational products in the United States.
Academy Sports and Outdoors belongs to the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 22.33 and an average price to book (P/B) of 3.12
The company's P/B ratio is 2.729
Academy Sports and Outdoors has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 8.57 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $6.99 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 7.83, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $7.65
ASO has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.552, which shows the company is very undervalued compared to its earnings growth estimates.
Over the last four years, Academy Sports and Outdoors has averaged free cash flows of $783,788,000.00, which on average grew -19.23%
ASO's gross profit margins have averaged 32.95 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 6.53 % and a coefficient of variability of 9 %.
Academy Sports and Outdoors has moved 66.86% over the last year compared to -11.78% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 78.64%
ASO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -13.8% away from its mean target price of $69.5 per share

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