The current trading zone is interesting to the point that investors should pay attention to the stock and anticipate a return of the underlying upward trend.
Strengths
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● The company's attractive earnings multiples are brought to light by a P/E ratio at 10.11 for the current year.
● The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
Weaknesses
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
ConnectOne Bancorp, Inc. is a financial services company. It operates through its bank subsidiary, ConnectOne Bank. ConnectOne Bank is a commercial bank offering a full suite of deposit and loan products and services to the general public, primarily to small and mid-sized businesses, local professionals and individuals residing, working and conducting business in the New York Metropolitan area and the South Florida market served by its West Palm Beach office. Its products and services include personal and business checking accounts, money market accounts, time and savings accounts, credit cards, wire transfers, safe deposit boxes, access to automated teller services and telephone, Internet and mobile banking. It also offers consumer and commercial business loans on a secured and unsecured basis, revolving lines of credit, commercial mortgage loans, and residential mortgages on both primary and secondary residences, home equity loans, bridge loans and other personal purpose loans.