Don't Buy Las Vegas Sands Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, January 09 15:05 • Permanent Link

Las Vegas Sands sank -3.1% this afternoon, 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:

Las Vegas Sands has logged a -3.8% 52 week change, compared to 21.5% for the S&P 500
LVS has an average analyst rating of buy and is -22.36% away from its mean target price of $64.65 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.87, which brings its trailing Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio to 57.7. The Consumer Discretionary sector's average P/E ratio is 22.96
The company's forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.8 and its forward P/E ratio is 17.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 8.42 in contrast to the Consumer Discretionary sector's average P/B ratio is 4.24
The company's free cash flow for the last fiscal year was $1.28 Billion and the average free cash flow growth rate is -45.2%
Las Vegas Sands's revenues have an average growth rate of -13.3% with operating expenses growing at -5.1%. The company's current operating margins stand at 16.8%

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