Here's a Quick Look Into the Fundamentals of Cheniere Energy Stock

By Naomi Wentworth • Friday, September 08 12:22 • Permanent Link

With gains of 2.1%, Cheniere Energy was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $163.28 and have logged a 0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Cheniere Energy has moved 2.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 11.0%
LNG has an average analyst rating of buy and is -16.94% away from its mean target price of $196.58 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $33.92
Cheniere Energy has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 4.8 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $10.82 and its forward P/E ratio is 15.1
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 13.72 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Cheniere Energy is part of the Utilities sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.89 and an average P/B of 1.03
LNG has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 93.4% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $6.84 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Cheniere Energy, Inc., an energy infrastructure company, primarily engages in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) related businesses in the United States. It owns and operates the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana; and the Corpus Christi LNG terminal near Corpus Christi, Texas. The company also owns Creole Trail pipeline, a 94-mile pipeline interconnecting the Sabine Pass LNG terminal with various interstate pipelines; and operates Corpus Christi pipeline, a 21.5-mile natural gas supply pipeline that interconnects the Corpus Christi LNG terminal with various interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines. It is also involved in the LNG and natural gas marketing business. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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