NASDAQ:AMPL
$2.69
(3/16 4:00PM)
-0.4%
| Open | $2.66 |
Mkt Cap | $151.6 Million |
| High | $2.69 |
52Wk High | $3.59 |
| Low | $2.66 |
52Wk Low | $1.65 |
| Volume | 7,300 |
Avg Vol 10D | 14,800 |
A Word Of Caution
While we stand by our ratings methodology for long term value investors, sometimes smaller companies will be more volatile in terms of revenue, cash earnings, and other fundamental factors. Ampal-American Israel Corporation (AMPL) is such a stock. Because many micro-caps are lightly traded their stock price can fluctuate because of a single large trade. Also, there is less analyst coverage of such micro-caps and therefore less information from which to base our ratings.
While this company may not get as much press because of its small size, please take a moment to look at the RazorWire feed on the right hand side of the report. Any time Ampal-Amer Israel is mentioned on business television or influential blogs a clip of that will be displayed. This helps to bring you up to speed on any major issues they are facing right now, both positive or negative.
Therefore, (and as always), check additional sources and available information regarding AMPL before making an investment decision.
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AMPL Revenue
For a long time, value investors have used the current share price relative to sales per share levels as an important valuation tool. We utilize a historical weighted average methodology that treats recent years more importantly in the calculation. When looking at AMPL through this framework, we can see that our weighted average historical high and low Price to Sales per share ratios over the last 10 years are 5.17x and 2.76x respectively.
Utilizing this range we can see that AMPL’s current Price to Sales per share ratio of 0.38x is significantly below its average levels historically. In fact, with a current price of $2.70, AMPL is a full 91% below its average Price to Sales ratio at comparable sales levels. This is a rare occurrence and, when taken in context of the other areas of our analysis, can be a strong positive for our outlook for AMPL.
AMPL Cash Earnings
Price to Cash Earnings analysis is inappropriate for this company due to an insufficient positive cash earnings history. Rather than calculating a potentially misleading Price to Cash Earnings analysis, we have chosen to give AMPL a neutral Price to Cash Earnings outlook at this time. However, we should point out that this metric is a significant element in Ockham’s methodology to analyzing the outlook for any company. Therefore, for AMPL, our assessment is now more dependent on the Price to Sales analysis, and investors should be cautious with a company with very limited, if any, positive cash earnings.
AMPL Dividends
When determining a company's future prospects for success, Ockham Research sees analysis of dividend payments as a key additional factor. Even though it isn't imperative for AMPL to shell out a dividend in order to receive a positive rating, it can be helpful to further our analysis. Although they may currently pay a dividend, our data source has no historical record of it for AMPL. Since we cannot apply our historical trend analysis to dividends for AMPL we have a neutral score for the dividend portion of our analysis.
