{"id":574639,"date":"2017-10-27T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=574639"},"modified":"2017-10-27T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:00:42","slug":"why-arcelormittal-stock-is-rated-a-hold-with-caution-before-earnings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=574639","title":{"rendered":"Why ArcelorMittal Stock Is Rated a “Hold With Caution” Before Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"arcelormittal<\/a><\/div>\n

By Rob Otman<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) is a $31 billion company today. Investors that bought shares one year ago are sitting on a 45.62% total return. That’s above the S&P 500’s return of 22.15%.<\/p>\n

ArcelorMittal stock is beating the market, and it reports earnings soon. But does that make it a good buy today? To answer this question, we’ve turned to the Investment U Stock Grader. Our Research Team built this system to diagnose the financial health of a company.<\/p>\n

Our system looks at six key metrics\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2717 Earnings-per-Share (EPS) Growth: ArcelorMittal reported a recent EPS growth rate of 14.04%. That’s below the metals and mining industry average of 142.13%. That’s not a good sign. We like to see companies that have higher earnings growth.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Price-to-Earnings (P\/E): The average price-to-earnings ratio of the metals and mining industry is 42.36. And ArcelorMittal’s ratio comes in at 8.86. It’s trading at a better value than many of its competitors.<\/p>\n

\u2713 Debt-to-Equity: The debt-to-equity ratio for ArcelorMittal stock is 39.05%. That’s below the metals and mining industry average of 122.45%. The company is less leveraged.<\/p>\n

\u2717 Free Cash Flow per Share Growth: ArcelorMittal’s FCF has been lower than that of its competitors over the last year. That’s not good for investors. In general, if a company is growing its FCF, it will be able to pay down debt, buy back stock, pay out more in dividends and\/or invest money back into the business to help boost growth. It’s one of our most important fundamental factors.<\/p>\n

\u2717 Profit Margins: The profit margin of ArcelorMittal comes in at 7.67% today. And generally, the higher, the better. We also like to see this margin above that of its competitors. ArcelorMittal’s profit margin is below the metals and mining average of 13.31%. So that’s a negative indicator for investors.<\/p>\n

\u2717 Return on Equity: Return on equity gives us a look at the amount of net income returned to shareholders. The ROE for ArcelorMittal is 10.68%, and that’s below its industry average ROE of 12.78%.<\/p>\n

ArcelorMittal stock passes two of our six key metrics today. That’s why our Investment U Stock Grader rates it as a Hold With Caution.<\/p>\n

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By Rob Otman ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) is a $31 billion company today. Investors that bought shares one year ago are sitting on a 45.62% total return. That’s above the S&P 500’s return of 22.15%. ArcelorMittal stock is beating the market, and it reports earnings soon. But does that make it a good buy today? To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}