The $10-50 price range often includes mid-sized businesses with proven track records and plenty of growth runway ahead. They also usually carry less risk than penny stocks, though they’re not immune to volatility as many lack the scale advantages of their larger peers.
Luckily for you, our mission at StockStory is to help you make money and avoid losses by sorting the winners from the losers. That said, here is one stock under $50 with huge potential and two that could be down big.
Two Stocks Under $50 to Sell:
Flowers Foods (FLO)
Share Price: $10.47
With Wonder Bread as its premier brand, Flower Foods (NYSE: FLO) is a packaged foods company that focuses on bakery products such as breads, buns, and cakes.
Why Should You Sell FLO?
- Shrinking unit sales over the past two years show it’s struggled to move its products and had to rely on price increases
- Anticipated sales growth of 2.9% for the next year implies demand will be shaky
- Earnings per share have contracted by 20.6% annually over the last three years, a headwind for returns as stock prices often echo long-term EPS performance
Flowers Foods’s stock price of $10.47 implies a valuation ratio of 10.9x forward P/E. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including FLO in your portfolio.
United Natural Foods (UNFI)
Share Price: $33.75
With a vast network of 55 distribution centers spanning approximately 30 million square feet of warehouse space, United Natural Foods (NYSE: UNFI) is North America's premier grocery wholesaler distributing natural, organic, and conventional products to over 30,000 retail locations across the US and Canada.
Why Should You Dump UNFI?
- Annual sales growth of 2.5% over the last three years lagged behind its consumer staples peers as its large revenue base made it difficult to generate incremental demand
- Performance over the past three years shows its incremental sales were much less profitable, as its earnings per share fell by 37.9% annually
- High net-debt-to-EBITDA ratio of 6× increases the risk of forced asset sales or dilutive financing if operational performance weakens
At $33.75 per share, United Natural Foods trades at 15.1x forward P/E. Dive into our free research report to see why there are better opportunities than UNFI.
One Stock Under $50 to Buy:
Instacart (CART)
Share Price: $41.35
Powering more than one billion grocery orders since its founding, Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) is an online grocery shopping and delivery platform that partners with retailers to help customers shop from local stores through its app or website.
Why Are We Bullish on CART?
- Annual revenue growth of 17% over the last three years beat the sector average and underscores the popularity of its platform
- Highly efficient business model is illustrated by its impressive 27% EBITDA margin, and its profits increased over the last few years as it scaled
- Free cash flow margin grew by 16.8 percentage points over the last few years, giving the company more chips to play with
Instacart is trading at $41.35 per share, or 8.7x forward EV/EBITDA. Is now the right time to buy? See for yourself in our in-depth research report, it’s free.
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