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For new and old investors, taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals.
While you may have an investing style you rely on, finding great stocks is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores. These are complementary indicators that rate stocks based on value, growth, and/or momentum characteristics.
Why Investors Should Pay Attention to This Value Stock
Value investors love finding good stocks at good prices, especially before the broader market catches on to a stock's true value. Utilizing ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow, the Value Style Score identifies the most attractive and most discounted stocks.
Euronet Worldwide (EEFT)
Founded in 1994 and headquartered at Leawood, KS, Euronet Worldwide is a leading electronics payments solutions provider. The company offers payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, consumers and service providers.
EEFT is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock, with a Value Style Score of A and VGM Score of A. Shares are currently trading at a forward P/E of 9.5X for the current fiscal year compared to the Financial - Miscellaneous Services industry's P/E of 8.5X. Additionally, EEFT has a PEG Ratio of 0.6 and a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 8.3X. Value investors should also note EEFT's Price/Sales ratio of 1X.
A company's earnings performance is important for value investors as well. For fiscal 2025, three analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for EEFT, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.16 to $9.81 per share. EEFT also holds an average earnings surprise of 7%.
EEFT should be on investors' short lists because of its impressive earnings and valuation fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Value and VGM Style Scores.
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