Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund

Profitability for 1 year: +8.63%
Dividend yield: 6.8%
Sector: Financials

Company Analysis Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund

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1. Summary

Advantages

  • Price (19.14 $) is less than fair price (19.68 $)
  • Dividends (6.8%) are higher than the sector average (2.56%).
  • The stock's return over the last year (8.63%) is higher than the sector average (-40.21%).

Disadvantages

  • The company's current efficiency (ROE=-1.3%) is lower than the sector average (ROE=20.04%)

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2. Share price and performance

2.1. Share price

2.3. Market efficiency

Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund Financials Index
7 days 0.4% 0% -1.2%
90 days -2.3% -14.2% -3.5%
1 year 8.6% -40.2% 17.8%

CSQ vs Sector: Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund has outperformed the "Financials" sector by 48.84% over the past year.

CSQ vs Market: Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund has significantly underperformed the market by -9.16% over the past year.

Stable price: CSQ is not significantly more volatile than the rest of the market on "NASDAQ" over the last 3 months, with typical variations of +/- 5% per week.

Long period: CSQ with weekly volatility of 0.17% over the past year.

3. Summary of the report

3.1. General

P/E: -76.55
P/S: 31.21

3.2. Revenue

EPS -0.2
ROE -1.3%
ROA 0.71%
ROIC 0%
Ebitda margin 0%

5. Fundamental Analysis

5.1. Stock price and price forecast

The fair price is calculated taking into account the Central Bank refinancing rate and earnings per share (EPS)

Below fair price: The current price (19.14 $) is lower than the fair price (19.68 $).

Price not significantly lower than the fair price: The current price (19.14 $) is slightly lower than the fair price by 2.8%.

5.2. P/E

P/E vs Sector: The company's P/E (-76.55) is higher than that of the sector as a whole (-235.93).

P/E vs Market: The company's P/E (-76.55) is higher than that of the market as a whole (-87.32).

5.3. P/BV

P/BV vs Sector: The company's P/BV (1.04) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (72.81).

P/BV vs Market: The company's P/BV (1.04) is lower than that of the market as a whole (82.22).

5.3.1 P/BV Similar companies

5.5. P/S

P/S vs Sector: The company's P/S indicator (31.21) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (261.09).

P/S vs Market: The company's P/S indicator (31.21) is lower than that of the market as a whole (115.2).

5.5.1 P/S Similar companies

5.5. EV/Ebitda

EV/Ebitda vs Sector: The company's EV/Ebitda (0) is higher than that of the sector as a whole (-241.78).

EV/Ebitda vs Market: The company's EV/Ebitda (0) is higher than that of the market as a whole (-82.75).

6. Profitability

6.1. Profitability and revenue

6.2. Earnings per share - EPS

6.3. Past profitability Net Income

Yield Trend: Negative and has fallen by 0% over the last 5 years.

Earnings Slowdown: The last year's return (0%) is below the 5-year average return (0%).

Profitability vs Sector: The return for the last year (0%) is lower than the return for the sector (1025.4%).

6.4. ROE

ROE vs Sector: The company's ROE (-1.3%) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (20.04%).

ROE vs Market: The company's ROE (-1.3%) is higher than that of the market as a whole (-6.94%).

6.6. ROA

ROA vs Sector: The company's ROA (0.71%) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (5.4%).

ROA vs Market: The company's ROA (0.71%) is lower than that of the market as a whole (37.49%).

6.6. ROIC

ROIC vs Sector: The company's ROIC (0%) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (11.81%).

ROIC vs Market: The company's ROIC (0%) is lower than that of the market as a whole (9.35%).

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7. Finance

7.1. Assets and debt

Debt level: (0%) is quite low in relation to assets.

Increasing debt: over 5 years, the debt has increased from 0% to 0%.

Excess of debt: The debt is not covered by net income, percentage -3648.21%.

7.2. Profit growth and share price

8. Dividends

8.1. Dividend yield vs Market

High yield: The dividend yield of the company 6.8% is higher than the average for the sector '2.56%.

8.2. Stability and increase in payments

Dividend stability: The company's dividend yield 6.8% has been steadily paid over the past 7 years, DSI=0.93.

Weak dividend growth: The company's dividend yield 6.8% has been growing weakly or stagnant over the past 5 years. Growth over only 0 years.

8.3. Payout percentage

Dividend Coverage: Current payments from income (0%) are at an uncomfortable level.

9. Insider trades

9.1. Insider trading

Insider Buying Exceeds insider sales by 100% over the last 3 months.

9.2. Latest transactions

No insider transactions have been recorded yet