ValuEngine Upgrades CitiGroup to STRONG BUY

For today’s bulletin, we take a look at our latest STRONG BUY and BUY upgrades and focus on one of our top upgrades for the day, Citigroup $C. We also provide a link to download a FREE STOCK REPORT on the company. Overvaluation has declined below 60% and therefore we have ended our latest Valuation Watch.

VALUATION WATCH: Overvalued stocks now make up 49.67% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 17.43% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Twelve sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

For today’s edition of our upgrade list, we used our website’s advanced screening functions to search for UPGRADES to BUY or STRONG BUY with complete forecast and valuation data. They are presented by one-month forecast return. Citigroup is a STRONG BUY stock. Viacom, Subaru, America Movil ADR, and Twentieth-First Century Fox are rated BUY.

Ticker Company Name Market Price Valuation Last 12-M Return 1-M Forecast Return 1-Yr Forecast Return P/E Ratio Sector Name
C CITIGROUP INC 73.68 13.68% 28.68% 1.09% 13.03% 13.61 Finance
VIAB VIACOM INC-B 32.87 3.26% -25.11% 0.64% 7.71% 8.80 Consumer Discretionary
FUJHY SUBARU CORP 17.29 -2.56% -8.71% 0.55% 6.65% 9.66 Auto-Tires-Trucks
AMX AMER MOVIL-ADR 17.7 -1.84% 38.93% 0.55% 6.58% 16.52 Computer and Technology
FOXA TWENTY-FST CF-A 35.73 15.10% 18.63% 0.54% 6.49% 19.60 Consumer Discretionary

For today’s bulletin, we take a look at Citigroup Inc. (C). Citigroup is a global financial services company. It provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services and wealth management. The Company also offers various wholesale banking products and services, including fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, and equity and fixed income research services. Citigroup Inc. is based in New York.

Citigroup has come a long way from the dark days of the Bush recession of 2007-2008, when many questioned the financial giant’s ability to survive. Thanks to the US government bail out, this “too big to fail” institution has come roaring back, and we now rate it a STRONG BUY.

The bank reported earnings last month and the results were strong, with a nice beat. At that time, Citigroup reported adjusted earnings of $1.28/share for Q4 2017. This was well ahead of analyst expectations of @ $1.20/share. Revenue was $17.3 billion at that time, which topped Q4 2016 figures by 1%. Profits for 2017 were up 6% year-over-year, and came in at $15.8 billion.

Below is our latest data for Citigroup, our top STRONG BUY upgrade for the day.

ValuEngine updated its recommendation from BUY to STRONG BUY for Citigroup on 2018-02-09. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that Citigroup has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Company Size and P/E Ratio.

You can download a free copy of detailed report on Citigroup (C) from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast
Target
Price*
Expected
Return
1-Month 74.48 1.09%
3-Month 74.88 1.63%
6-Month 77.11 4.66%
1-Year 83.28 13.03%
2-Year 89.32 21.23%
3-Year 93.07 26.31%
Valuation & Rankings
Valuation 13.68% overvalued Valuation Rank(?) 24
1-M Forecast Return 1.09% 1-M Forecast Return Rank 99
12-M Return 28.68% Momentum Rank(?) 80
Sharpe Ratio 0.56 Sharpe Ratio Rank(?) 75
5-Y Avg Annual Return 12.43% 5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank 74
Volatility 22.19% Volatility Rank(?) 65
Expected EPS Growth 19.46% EPS Growth Rank(?) 48
Market Cap (billions) 223.21 Size Rank 100
Trailing P/E Ratio 13.61 Trailing P/E Rank(?) 83
Forward P/E Ratio 11.39 Forward P/E Ratio Rank 74
PEG Ratio 0.70 PEG Ratio Rank 50
Price/Sales 2.54 Price/Sales Rank(?) 42
Market/Book 1.28 Market/Book Rank(?) 72
Beta 1.58 Beta Rank 17
Alpha 0.00 Alpha Rank 62

 

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