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Profitability is one of the most important parts of a stock analysis, but there are tens if not hundreds of different ways to look at a company’s profitability numbers. For ideas on how to start your own profitability analysis, we ran a screen.
We began by screening the utilities sector for stocks rallying above their 20-day, 50-day, and 200-day moving averages, indicating that these stocks have strong upward momentum.
We then screened for those with strong profitability compared to industry peers, with higher gross, operating, and pretax margins than their industry averages by at least 5% on each margin. This indicates that these companies are taking a greater percentage of their revenues as profits, and they also have stronger control over their cost structures.
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