Is Provident Financial stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
Right now our advanced algorithms say:
Do the analyst corps agree?
Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, Provident Financial pays dividends. Last time was Friday 30th of August 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Friday 16th of August 2024 were paid $0.24 per share. Over the last 87 times between 2003 and 2024, Provident Financial has paid $13.69 with an average of $0.16 per share.
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We cannot find data for Provident Financial 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Monday 9th of September 2019 when the price was $24.53, you would have made a loss of $-6.25 per share or -25.48%
Yes, the average daily trading liquidity for Provident Financial is $992 729 thousand. You should therefore be able to get in and out of your positions relatively fast.
Provident Financial has a normal ratio of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at some risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a low cash flow to debt ratio of 0.07, the company's ability to pay off the debt is limited. Provident Financial has a good net profit margin of 19.93% and should have high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for Provident Financial to be medium [0.55 of 1]
US inflation for July 2024 was 0.15%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.92%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 3.72 and is down -0.95 over the last 30 days.