Highlighted Charts
U.S.: Pan American Silver Group ( PAAS ), Brinks ( BCO ), Cooper-Standard Holdings ( CPS ), Meritage Homes Corp ( MTH ), Hertz Global Holdings ( HTZ ), EQT Corporation ( EQT ), Bankunited ( BKU ), Umpqua Holdings ( UMPQ ), Perrigo ( PRGO ), Buckle ( BKE ), Group I Automotive ( GPI ), Microchip Tech ( MCHP ), Instructure Inc ( INST )
Developed: Henkel AG & CO ( HEN3X.DE; HEN3 GR ), Relx ( REL.GB; REL LN ), Intertek Group ( ITRK.GB; ITRK LN ), Telecom Italia ( TITR.IT; TITR IM ), AB InBev ( ABI.BE; ABI BB ), IG Group Holdings ( IGG.GB; IGG LN ), Country Garden Holdings ( COGA.HK; 2007 HK ), Grifols ( PROB.ES; GRF SM ), Kesko ( KESK.FI; KESKOB FH ), ST Micro Electronics ( STM.IT; STM MI ), Ryanair Holdings PLC ( RYA.GB;RYA LN )
Emerging: Cemex Cpo ( CMC.MX; CEMEXCPO MM ), Embraer On ( EA3.BR; EMBR3 BZ ), Turkcell Iletisim ( TKC.TR; TCELL TI ), Bidvest Group ( BVTJ.ZA, BVT SJ ), Lojas Americanas ( LM4.BR; LAME4 BZ ), SK Hynix ( HYI.KR; 000660 KS )
Stocks worth focusing on in this week’s Global Laggards:
U.S.
Meritage Homes ( MTH ) – Cyclical ( $1.6B market cap ) – Builds and sells single-family homes across the Western, Southern, and Southeastern regions of the United States. Meritage is the seventh largest U.S. homebuilder based on homes closed last year.
MTH shares fell to a new 12-month low on Thursday, September 27 on concerns around home affordability after the Federal Reserve discussed plans for several interest rate increases over the next 15 months.
On Thursday, September 20, the National Association of Realtors released a report indicating flat growth in existing home sales for the month of August, which was below consensus expectations. Additionally, home inventories were at the highest level in three years.
Looking forward, higher inventories and declining affordability are likely to weigh on new home sales in 2019.
MTH trades at peer group average multiples despite the company’s inferior margin profile and lower projected growth across sales, EPS, and EBITDA for 2019 and 2020.
RS line is hitting seven-year lows, along with a RS Rating of 24 and A/D Rating of D-.
The Homebuilders group is ranked 196 out of the 197 O’Neil industry groups, with many constituents under technical pressure.