Sierra posted gains in both business segments, with IoT Solutions revenue growing 16% year-on-year and Enterprise Solutions up 24% year-on-year. The company showed $132.8 million on the upside, up more than 18% year-over-year, while loss of earnings per share narrowed from 36 cents per share in the year-ago quarter to 3 cents in the recent report. The share price losses came even as Sierra reported solid second quarter 2021 statistics.
With all that, however, Sierra’s stock is down 20% in the past month. The company’s 5G-enabled products offer solutions for enhanced IoT connectivity, and Sierra has launched the industry’s first 5G-enabled vehicle router, a significant step in the development of autonomous cars. Sierra’s product line, with its focus on machine-to-machine communication, is especially relevant for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Sierra is also heavily involved in the broadband modem market, offering 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G products, including modems, routers, and gateways, along with the software, tools, and services needed to maintain them. The company designs and manufactures machine-to-machine communications equipment as well as mobile computing equipment for wireless networking. Next up, Sierra Wireless, is another native of the wireless networking equipment field. The average price target comes in at $24.40 and represents ~75% upside potential. This translates into a Strong Buy consensus rating. (To view Daryanani’s track record, click here)Īs for the rest of the street, COMM has been awarded 5 Buys and 1 Hold. buy), and its price target of $25 implies a 75% increase for the coming year. In line with these comments, Daryanani rates COMM as an outperform (i.e.
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We continue to see an investor day (December schedule) and the full disclosure of CommScope NEXT as the next major positive catalyst for the stock.” Daryanani noted.ĭaryanani also points out that company insiders have been buying the shares, saying, “The purchase supports our view that nothing has changed with the long-term outlook for CommScope and we continue to see an upward path…” “The stock reaction seems over as the June QTR numbers were solid and there was no real change in management’s forward-looking commentary. The stock is down 35% since its recent peak in July, but Evercore’s 5-star analyst Amit Daryanani says to ‘buy this dip’. At the same time, the company’s shares are down 35% from their peak in July this year. The EPS loss marked the second quarter in a row that losses were increasing sequentially, and that was the biggest loss in the past four quarters. CommScope reported $2.19 billion in revenue for the quarter, its best result since 4Q19 – but on earnings per share, the company suffered a loss of 82 cents per share. The company is well positioned to take advantage of the ongoing 5G expansion, and it has posted more revenue in the past year.Ī look at the 2Q21 report can provide some insight.
We start with CommScope, a network infrastructure that manufactures and distributes hardware for cellular tower and building installations, transmitter base stations, and outdoor wireless power supplies. But their prospects remain high all three are Buy rated and offer significant upside potential for the coming year. These are companies that have had some bad luck and have seen their share prices fall in recent months. We have used The TipRanks database to find three stocks that fit that profile. A bad month of sales that coincided with a quarterly report a seasonal decline before the customer base returns a one-time R&D outlay that depresses earnings – all of these can negatively impact the share price, without hurting the overall outlook. Prices can go up and down for a myriad of reasons, and while those reasons often bode badly for the stock, that’s not always the case. In short, what is needed are stocks that are struggling, but remain fundamentally healthy. And that fact helps to outline the basic opportunities that investors should look for. Simple physics tells us that what goes up must also come down – but sometimes market forces take what has gone down and push it back up.
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