The Globe and Mail attempts to identify potentially undervalued Canadian
companies with momentum
and earnings to reinvest
in its Tuesday edition. The Globe's Craig McGee writes in the Number Cruncher column that there are pockets
of the market that have been
experiencing increasing expectations
and building momentum.
In the search for trending stocks
with room to grow, Mr. McGee looked to the EMG (enterprise-multiple-to-growth) ratio. Similar
to the PEG ratio, EMG compares
valuations with growth
levels. In this case, Mr. McGee is taking total enterprise value
divided by four quarters of
earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization,
and dividing by the sustainable
growth rate (also known as reinvestment
rate) in order to take
growth prospects into account.
He looked for stocks with the best EMG ratio. He only considered companies with a positive three-month consensus earnings
estimate revision. Earnings surprises had to be positive, so too the three-month and 12-month price
change.
Mr. McGee only considered firms with a market cap greater then $200-million. Stocks with sustainable growth are Dollarama, Uni-Select, Great Canadian Gaming, Martinrea International and Loblaw.
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