The Eastern Company

Yield per half year: +2.56%
Dividend yield: 1.78%
Sector: Industrials

Company Analysis The Eastern Company

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1. Summary

Advantages

  • Dividends (1.78%) are higher than the sector average (0.9665%).
  • The stock's return over the last year (-33.83%) is higher than the sector average (-35.87%).
  • Current debt level 24.07% is below 100% and has decreased over 5 years from 39.58%.

Disadvantages

  • Price (21.18 $) is higher than fair price (19.45 $)
  • The company's current efficiency (ROE=-6.74%) is lower than the sector average (ROE=32.87%)

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2. Share price and performance

2.1. Share price

2.3. Market efficiency

The Eastern Company Industrials Index
7 days -1% -1.6% -0.1%
90 days -8% -46.4% 5%
1 year -33.8% -35.9% 22.1%

EML vs Sector: The Eastern Company has outperformed the "Industrials" sector by 2.04% over the past year.

EML vs Market: The Eastern Company has significantly underperformed the market by -55.97% over the past year.

Stable price: EML 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: EML with weekly volatility of -0.6506% over the past year.

3. Summary of the report

3.1. General

P/E: -15.69
P/S: 0.6005

3.2. Revenue

EPS -1.37
ROE -6.74%
ROA -3.5%
ROIC 0%
Ebitda margin 7.39%

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)

Above fair price: The current price (21.18 $) is higher than the fair price (19.45 $).

Price is higher than fair: The current price (21.18 $) is 8.2% higher than the fair price.

5.2. P/E

P/E vs Sector: The company's P/E (-15.69) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (31.21).

P/E vs Market: The company's P/E (-15.69) is higher than that of the market as a whole (-80.39).

5.3. P/BV

P/BV vs Sector: The company's P/BV (1.36) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (20.15).

P/BV vs Market: The company's P/BV (1.36) is lower than that of the market as a whole (51.71).

5.3.1 P/BV Similar companies

5.5. P/S

P/S vs Sector: The company's P/S indicator (0.6005) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (5.35).

P/S vs Market: The company's P/S indicator (0.6005) is lower than that of the market as a whole (136.99).

5.5.1 P/S Similar companies

5.5. EV/Ebitda

EV/Ebitda vs Sector: The company's EV/Ebitda (10.24) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (17.6).

EV/Ebitda vs Market: The company's EV/Ebitda (10.24) is higher than that of the market as a whole (-47.74).

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 -51.59% over the last 5 years.

Accelerating profitability: The return for the last year (0%) exceeds the average return for 5 years (-51.59%).

Profitability vs Sector: The return for the last year (0%) is lower than the return for the sector (1.99%).

6.4. ROE

ROE vs Sector: The company's ROE (-6.74%) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (32.87%).

ROE vs Market: The company's ROE (-6.74%) is higher than that of the market as a whole (-10.18%).

6.6. ROA

ROA vs Sector: The company's ROA (-3.5%) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (7.24%).

ROA vs Market: The company's ROA (-3.5%) is lower than that of the market as a whole (39.54%).

6.6. ROIC

ROIC vs Sector: The company's ROIC (0%) is lower than that of the sector as a whole (12.5%).

ROIC vs Market: The company's ROIC (0%) is lower than that of the market as a whole (8.78%).

7. Finance

7.1. Assets and debt

Debt level: (24.07%) is quite low in relation to assets.

Debt reduction: over 5 years, the debt has decreased from 39.58% to 24.07%.

Excess of debt: The debt is not covered by net income, percentage -664.01%.

7.2. Profit growth and share price

8. Dividends

8.1. Dividend yield vs Market

High yield: The dividend yield of the company 1.78% is higher than the average for the sector '0.9665%.

8.2. Stability and increase in payments

Dividend stability: The company's dividend yield 1.78% has been steadily paid over the past 7 years, DSI=0.93.

Weak dividend growth: The company's dividend yield 1.78% 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 (32.22%) are at a comfortable 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

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