Pennantpark Floating Rate Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

PFLT Stock  USD 11.07  0.01  0.09%   
Given the investment horizon of 90 days and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding PennantPark Floating Rate is 'Hold'. A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell PennantPark Floating Rate given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards PennantPark Floating. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for PennantPark Floating Rate, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell PennantPark FloatingBuy PennantPark Floating
Hold

Market Performance

InsignificantDetails

Volatility

Very steadyDetails

Hype Condition

Low keyDetails

Current Valuation

Fairly ValuedDetails

Odds Of Distress

LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Barely shadows the marketDetails

Investor Sentiment

ImpartialDetails

Analyst Consensus

BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

StrongDetails

Financial Leverage

Not RatedDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Unlikely ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon PennantPark Floating Rate has a Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.0453, Jensen Alpha of 0.0179, Total Risk Alpha of (0.09), Sortino Ratio of (0.08) and Treynor Ratio of 0.2283
Our trade recommendations tool can cross-verify current analyst consensus on PennantPark Floating Rate and to analyze the firm potential to grow in the current economic cycle. To make sure PennantPark Floating is not overpriced, please check all PennantPark Floating Rate fundamentals, including its price to sales, book value per share, annual yield, as well as the relationship between the cash and equivalents and target price . Given that PennantPark Floating Rate has a number of shares shorted of 1.13 M, we recommend you to check out PennantPark Floating Rate market performance and probability of bankruptcy to ensure the company can sustain itself in the current economic cycle given your recent risk tolerance and investing horizon.

PennantPark Floating Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

PennantPark Floating has a strong financial position based on the latest SEC filings
On 1st of November 2024 PennantPark Floating paid $ 0.1025 per share dividend to its current shareholders
Latest headline from finance.yahoo.com: PennantPark Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

PennantPark Floating Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of PennantPark Floating's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of PennantPark Floating's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of PennantPark Floating daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use PennantPark Floating Rate price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of PennantPark Floating returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for PennantPark Floating.
Mean Return
0.05
Value At Risk
-1.13
Potential Upside
1.09
Standard Deviation
0.82
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of PennantPark Floating historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

PennantPark Stock Institutional Investors

The PennantPark Floating's institutional investors refer to entities that pool money to purchase PennantPark Floating's securities or originate loans. These institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds.
Shares
Newedge Wealth, Llc2024-09-30
286.7 K
Advisors Asset Management2024-09-30
281.6 K
Trexquant Investment Lp2024-06-30
280.9 K
Blackrock Inc2024-06-30
206.7 K
Ubs Group Ag2024-06-30
198.7 K
Jpmorgan Chase & Co2024-06-30
145.9 K
Hrt Financial Llc2024-06-30
130 K
Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc2024-09-30
121.1 K
Hightower Advisors, Llc2024-06-30
118.8 K
Sound Income Strategies2024-09-30
M
Altshuler Shaham Ltd2024-09-30
1.6 M
Note, although PennantPark Floating's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

PennantPark Floating Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change In Cash(5.8M)(7.7M)(1.9M)49.1M56.4M59.2M
Free Cash Flow(4.9M)49.6M(50.0M)140.6M161.6M169.7M
Other Non Cash Items(24.8B)44.6B(92.6M)136.0M156.4M148.5M
Net Income18.4M56.5M3.5M39.3M45.2M24.2M
End Period Cash Flow57.5M49.8M47.9M100.6M115.6M121.4M
Depreciation24.8B(44.5B)20.3M7.4M6.6M7.0M
Net Borrowings43.3M(13.1M)13.8M(180.5M)(162.4M)(154.3M)
Change To Netincome(19.0M)17.9M(73.0M)98.8M113.6M119.3M

PennantPark Floating Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to PennantPark Floating or Capital Markets sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that PennantPark Floating's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a PennantPark stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
0.02
β
Beta against Dow Jones0.17
σ
Overall volatility
0.81
Ir
Information ratio -0.1

PennantPark Floating Volatility Alert

PennantPark Floating Rate has relatively low volatility with skewness of -1.74 and kurtosis of 6.07. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure PennantPark Floating's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact PennantPark Floating's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

PennantPark Floating Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing PennantPark Floating's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze PennantPark Floating's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between PennantPark Floating and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as PennantPark Floating or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of PennantPark Floating's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing PennantPark Floating by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare PennantPark Floating to competition
FundamentalsPennantPark FloatingPeer Average
Return On Equity0.14-0.31
Return On Asset0.0544-0.14
Profit Margin0.59 %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.78 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation971.4 M16.62 B
Shares Outstanding77.58 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders1.12 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions22.74 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted1.13 M4.71 M
Price To Earning12.77 X28.72 X
Price To Book0.98 X9.51 X
Price To Sales5.15 X11.42 X
Revenue42.16 M9.43 B
Gross Profit139.34 M27.38 B
EBITDA37.73 M3.9 B
Net Income39.26 M570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents40.62 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share0.98 X5.01 X
Total Debt495.43 M5.32 B
Debt To Equity1.50 %48.70 %
Current Ratio2.62 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share11.34 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations140.56 M971.22 M
Short Ratio0.71 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share1.40 X3.12 X
Price To Earnings To Growth0.27 X4.89 X
Target Price11.67
Beta1.68-0.15
Market Capitalization858.03 M19.03 B
Total Asset1.18 B29.47 B
Retained Earnings(111.64 M)9.33 B
Annual Yield0.11 %
Five Year Return9.58 %
Note: Acquisition by Jose Briones of 1745 shares of PennantPark Floating at 11.3995 subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]

PennantPark Floating Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as PennantPark . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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