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Released on Monday, September 26, 2011, 8:00 AM ET
Pittsburgh, PA (SpeculatingStocks) -Allied Healthcare International Inc. (NASDAQ:AHCI) is a healthcare services company which operates in the United Kingdom, with over 115 branches, it offers substantial health care sustainment services. If you are looking to diversify your portfolio in this global turmoil you might want to investigate this purchase.
Ironically, AHCI does not appear to be a penny stock that you would want to buy and sell during intraday trading. Although you can profit a few cents here and there, this stock tends to really move over the course of a month, perfect for the trader who wants to realize a lot of gains but has little time for the maintenance of their portfolio.
AHCI is trading at $3.84 per share (Friday's close), and is within the upper edge of its range running from $3.83 - $3.86 per share and definitely knocking at the door of its 52-week range from $2.08 to $3.87 per share. This stock is trading at a market cap of only $167.31 million dollars, so it’s highly volatile and a small change will net either large gains or losses—be cautious—this stock also runs an average trading volume of approximately 373,000 shares.
But all else considered the price to earnings is approximately 19.47, it runs an EPS of $0.20 per share according to the last quarterly report released on the 30th of June, 2011, and it holds a beta of 0.90 so it moves relatively less than the market on any given day.
The company’s financials are also fairly strong, with a return on equity of 5.49% and a justifiably close return on assets of 4.90%. The company has shown recent positive cash flows, a sign of financial stability. Allied Healthcare has current assets in a total of $77.7 million and current liabilities of $31.4 million. A quick acid test ratio show instantaneous solvency at 2.38.
Technicals are not particularly revealing for this stock, partially because it is a micro-cap making it hard to predict any momentum or reversals in the short run, but long run technicals show a long-term down trend that could be ending shortly with the MACD band closing the divergence gap with the EMA to eventually move above it from below. Last time this occurred AHCI jumped 55% in one day. Taking a closer look at AHCI within the next few days might be a good strategy and a rebound in the stock could produce a nice ROI.
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