TE Connectivity Investors Should Focus on This

By Blake Campbell • Thursday, January 04 15:17 • Permanent Link

TE Connectivity sank -3.3% today, compared to the S&P 500's day change of -0.0%. Today's losers may turn out to be tomorrow's winners, so be sure to check the stock's fundamentals before making an investment decision:

TE Connectivity has moved 18.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 23.5%
TEL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -11.64% away from its mean target price of $150.08 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $6.01
TE Connectivity has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 22.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $8.32 and its forward P/E ratio is 15.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.58 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
TE Connectivity is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 35.0 and an average P/B of 7.92
TEL has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -20.7% and gross profit margins of 0.3%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.81 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
TE Connectivity Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells connectivity and sensor solutions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the AsiaPacific, and the Americas. The company operates through three segments: Transportation Solutions, Industrial Solutions, and Communications Solutions. The Transportation Solutions segment provides terminals and connector systems and components, sensors, relays, antennas, and application tooling products for use in the automotive, commercial transportation, and sensor markets. The Industrial Solutions segment offers terminals and connector systems and components; and interventional medical components, relays, heat shrink tubing, and wires and cables for industrial equipment, aerospace, defense, marine, medical, and energy markets. The Communications Solutions segment supplies electronic components, such as terminals and connector systems and components, relays, heat shrink tubing, and antennas for the data and devices, and appliances markets. The company sells its products to approximately 140 countries primarily through direct sales to manufacturers, as well as through third-party distributors. The company was formerly known as Tyco Electronics Ltd. and changed its name to TE Connectivity Ltd. in March 2011. TE Connectivity Ltd. was founded in 1941 and is based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

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