The anticipation of a bearish reversal for stocks in PennantPark Investment Corporation follows on a technical rebound that started several trading sessions ago as well as return to important technical resistance levels.
Summary
● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.
● The company has poor fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● This company will be of major interest to investors in search of a high dividend stock.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Weaknesses
● According to Standard & Poor's' forecast, revenue growth prospects are expected to be very low for the next fiscal years.
● Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
● For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
● Analysts covering the stock have recently lowered their earnings forecast.
● For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
● For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
● Below the resistance at 3.94 USD, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.
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PennantPark Investment Corporation is a closed-end, externally managed, non-diversified investment company. The Companyâs objectives are to generate both current income and capital appreciation while seeking to preserve capital through debt and equity investments primarily made to United States middle-market companies in the form of first lien secured debt, second lien secured debt, subordinated debt and equity investments. The Company invests primarily in United States middle-market companies in the form of first lien secured debt, second lien secured debt, subordinated debt and, to a lesser extent, equity investments. The Companyâs portfolio generally consists of illiquid securities, including debt and equity investments. It invests in sectors, including media, hotels, motels, inns and gaming, aerospace and defense, building materials, environmental services, healthcare, education and childcare, consumer products, printing and publishing, and the auto sector, among others.