We are going to take a deep look at TEGNA Inc. (NYSE:TGNA) to get a better view of the company and its prevailing status, as well as the prospect it may offer for investors. Today’s prime focus will be a fundamental assessment of the equity from top to bottom.
As such, let’s begin with the top line, i.e. revenue trends. Last quarter, the firm saw its overall revenue came at $778.47M. That represents a change in revenues, on a quarterly/yearly basis, of -0%. If it is translated that into sequential terms, the firm witnessed sales decline by -0.14% from quarter to quarter.
It’s important to track the top line data. There’s no better way to compute the end market?s reception of a firm?s products. But no one wins without bottom line performance, which is what is required to look at next.
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE:TGNA) is intriguing when segregated to its core data. The cost of selling goods in preceding quarter was $347.91M, resulting in a gross basic income of $430.56M. For shareholders, provided the total diluted due shares of 217.57M, this means earnings per share of $0.27. Note, this assesses with a consensus analyst projection of $0.40 in EPS for its next quarterly report.
Given that data, now is the time to turn to a thorough glance across analyst projections for the firm going forward.
At present, analysts have a consensus average recommendation of Overweight. This is grounded on a total of 12. While we don’t recommend taking analyst calls as face value strategies for action in a portfolio, we do consider it is vital to note where consensus is on an equity to understand what basic assumptions are possibly already discounted into pricing of shares.
As far as price targets, market analysts have an average target of $14.91. In addition, for next year, estimates of a fiscal year forecast is 2.13 in total EPS. On a median price to earnings ratio, that outlook results in a valuation of $11.49 times earnings.
For TEGNA Inc. (NYSE:TGNA), the firm presently holds around $79.66M in cash. That cash is balanced against around $646,000 in total current liabilities.
The firm’s debt is $falling, while total assets are $8.47B balanced by total liablities of $5.84B. The free cash flow last quarter was $122.93M, representing a net change in cash of $2.74M. On a net operating level, the cash flow was about $140.89M.
Let’s take a look at the technical analysis.
The Barchart Technical Opinion rating is a 88% Sell with a Strongest short term outlook on maintaining the current direction. Longer term, the trend strength is in the Top 1%. Long term indicators mostly agree with the trend.
TEGNA Inc. (“TEGNA”) and announces the appointment of seven members to the company’s first board of directors as a public company. Cars.com will begin regular way trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) today.
We will apprise the interesting story of TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) as new events transpire.
