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Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. (XNYS:BFH) In-Depth Stock/Fundamental/Options Analysis Today

Primary Facts

ADS

Name:

BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC. (XNYS:BFH)

Sector:

477.00M

Industry:

Credit Services

CEO:

Mr. Ralph Andretta

Total Employees:

6,000

Our Technological Advancement Rating

Our Rating:

D

Technological advancement compared to industry is -65.13% lower

ANALYSIS OF ALL CRITICAL FACTORS & RISKS RELATED TO THE STOCK & FUNDAMENTAL/LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.(BFH) AS PER DATA ANALYSIS OF LAST 3 YEARS AND COMPARISON WITH COMPETITORS/PEERS, AND CREDIT SERVICES INDUSTRY. DATE: 07/09/2022

Primary Targets/Price Insights

Previous Close ($) :

38.05

One Month Price Target:

$38.47

Six Month Price Target :

$40.59

Likely Price in One Year's Time:

Ticker:

$43.14

Likely Trading Range Today Under (Normal Volatility)
 

$37.75

Price Upper limit ($) :

$38.34

Price Lower limit ($) :

Crash Risk Prep/Key Price Levels (High Volatility/Risk)

Price, as per data analysis, isn't likely to fall below:

Today:

$34.45

                                                               This week:

$30.

                                                        This month :

$21.96

Other Primary facts

Market Cap:

1.82B

Market Cap Classification:

Small Cap

Number of Shares

IPO Date:

49.85M

Best/Worst Daily Performance (Last 3+ Years)
 

Highest Daily Appreciation:

35.43%

-27.07%

Worst Daily Decline:

Our Options Trading Entry Points

Iron Condor entry points for options expiring in 1 week's time

Low risk (<2%) entry points

Buy Call:

Sell Call:

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$54.76

$47.17

$21.34

$28.93

Medium risk (<10%) entry points

Buy Call

Sell Call

$44.70

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$43.08

$31.37

$33.02

These entry points can be used for other strategies, such as butterflies, straddles, etc.

Risk-Adjusted returns (Sharpe Ratio) of

ADS

Sharpe Ratio:

-0.42%

Comparison:

ADS, is amongst the top 40% stocks with lowest risk-adjusted returns

Sharpe ratio is -122.62% lower than the industry

& is -118.45% lower than the market/S&P 500 average

Average Returns/Yield of

ADS

Daily returns:

-0.01%

Weekly returns:

-0.05%

Monthly returns:

-0.21%

Yearly returns:

19.06%

Comparison of returns:

Average annual returns/yield (last 3 years) is -113.21% below industry average

Classification:

ADS, is amongst the top 40% lowest yielding stocks in terms of daily returns

Results of T-Test of Returns:

0.76

Statistical test of Returns:

ADS has yielded returns statistically similar to the market

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Volatility (measured by Standard Deviation)

Daily Volatility:

4.60%

Weekly Volatility:

10.28%

Monthly Volatility:

20.57%

Yearly Volatility:

71.25%

Volitlilty of last five days (Measured by Standard Deviation) 

Average Volatility of this Week:

0.44%

Volatility in last five trading days has been -90.46% below long-term volatility

Value at Risk Analysis (VaR)

Daily VaR:

-9.46%

Weekly VaR:

-21.15%

Monthly VaR:

-42.29%

How Much Can the price of

ADS

Decline in a Recession?

Likely price decline in a recession: 

Base case (decline):

-38%

Worst case (decline):

>85%

This translates to price declining to:

$23.77

This translates to price declining to:

$5.71

Severe Crash Probability

Risk of crash in next 6/12 months: Low (<25%)

What is Value at Risk (VaR)?

VaR explained figure

Risk Fundamentals

ADS is a 198.48% riskier investment compared to the market/S&P 500 & is 155.71% riskier than Nasdaq (IXIC)

Risk (measured by volatility) is 39.38% above industry average

Overall, it is amongst the top 50% most risky stocks

Beta Examination of

ADS

Beta in relation to market/S&P 500--1.99

Expected beta in 1 year's time:

1.082

Expected beta in 3 year's time:

1.53

Unlevered (debt free) Beta:

0.609

Beta in relation to Nasdaq (XNAS):

1.174

Beta in relation to all global stocks::

1.16

Beta Comparison & Analysis

Beta of competitors/peers::

1.094

Beta is 81.73% higher than peers

Average Industry Beta: 

1.332

Beta is 49.30% above industry average

Sustainable Growth Rate Analysis

Sustainable growth rate for this stock/firm:

39.77%

Sustainable growth rate is 17.87% above industry average

Alpha provided | Alpha Analysis 

Alpha provided:

-0.193

Alpha is -384.19% below industry average alpha yield

Alpha is -1228% below the market average

Analysis of Cost of Capital of

ADS

Equity cost of capital:

0.168

Equity cost of capital is 36.65% above industry mean WACC

Unlevered (without debt) cost of capital:  

5.13%

Before-tax cost of debt:

1.17%

After-tax cost of debt:

0.92%

Overall debt rating:

Highest AAA investment grade

Weighted average cost of capital (WACC):

0.92%

WACC is 43.30% above industry mean WACC

Key Per-Share Metrics & Analysis

Revenue per share:

$70.28

Revenue growth rate per share of (3Y):

0.84

Annual revenue growth rate is -128.10% below industry average

EPS:

$0.00

Expected Annual growth rate of  EPS (3Y):

0.00%

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Free cash flow (FCF) per share:

$0.01

Balance sheet equity growth per share: -61.47%

Equity growth rate per share is -358.22% lower than the industry

Debt per share

$135.98

EBITDA per share

$22.94

Valuation Analysis Today of

ADS

P/E Ratio:

4.22

P/E Ratio of Competitors/Peers:

10.18

P/E ratio is -58.59% lower than main peers & is -65.26% lower than the industry

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Share value as per dividend discount (DDM) model: $6.61

Present value of the expected future dividends only: $3.34

P/S (Price to Sales ratio):

0.54

Price to sales ratio is -89.58% below the industry mean

P/B (Price to book value ratio):

0.84

Price to free cash flow: 7536.40

Price to free cash flow ratio is -94.27% lower than the industry

Net income growth rate (3Y):

-4.48%

Net income growth rate is -127.72% lower than the industry average net income growth rate

Dividend Analysis

Dividend payout rate: 1.38%

Dividend yeild: 2.21%

Previous Dividend: $0.21

Previous adjusted dividend: $0.21

Previous Dividend: $0.84

Expected next dividend best case: $0.35

Expected next dividend worst case: $0.07

Average dividend payment (long-term): $0.29

Average dividend increase/decrease (growth rate) % per period: -6.67%

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Dividend History:

2022-05-12--$0.21

2021-11-10--$0.21

2021-05-13--$0.21

2022-02-10--$0.21

2021-08-12--$0.21

2021-02-11--$0.21

Dividend growth rate is -30.29% lower than the industry average

In-depth Debt & Leverage Analysis

Debt to equity ratio:

298.85%

Net debt to equity ratio:

169.66%

Debt to assets ratio:

32.37%

Net debt to assets ratio:

18.38%

Debt-to-asset ratio is -58.48% below industry average

Ability to repay debt:

Interest coverage ratio:

14.47

Interest coverage ratio is 47.35% more than industry average

Looking forward:

Debt growth rate:

-59.27%

Annual debt growth is -220% lower than industry average debt growth rate

Debt repayment rate in last quarter: 16.73%

Analysis of Key Statistics  

Correlation of price movement with the market:

0.563

Statistical significance of correlation:

ADS has a statistically significant correlation with the market

Average Correlation of  the industry with the market:

0.561

Stock price is 0.38% more correlated with the market, compared to the industry average correlation

R Squared (percentage of price movement explained by movement of the market): 

0.561

Correlation of price movement with Nasdaq (^IXIC):

0.015

Covariance  of price movement with the market:

0.041

Kurtosis 

10.283

Returns have a significant fat-tails (leptokurtic), i.e., returns considerably higher or lower than the mean returns are more probable, compared to assets with normally distributed returns

Skewness of returns:

0.636

Returns are right (positive) skewed; mean returns are greater than median and mode returns

Fundamental Analysis & Dupont Analysis of

ADS

Gross Profit Margin Ratio:

230%

Operating Profit Margin Ratio:

24.07%

Operating profit margin is -17.21% lower than the industry

Net Profit Margin Ratio:

230%

Effective Tax Rate:

24.14%

Effective tax rate is 11.49% higher than the industry

Dupont Method

Net Profit Margin

Return on Equity Ratio (ROE):

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31.96%

Return on equity (ROE) is -24.62% lower than the industry

Financial Leverage

Asset Turnover Ratio (ROA):

3.46%

Return on assets (ROA) is -42.87% lower than the industry

Financial Leverage:

1.5x

Current Ratio:

1.5

Current ratio is -74.06% below industry average

Cash Conversion Cycle (days):

17

Cash conversion cycle is -87.22% below industry average

The remaining useful life of property plant & equipment is: 4.5 years

Stock based compensation to net income ratio:

0.97%

In-depth Efficiency  Analysis

Revenue generated per employee:

583.9K

Each employee generates -20% less revenue than industry average revenue per employee

EBITDA generated per employee: 

190.6K

Each employee generates -55% less EBITDA than industry average revenue per employee

Profit generated per employee: 

120.8K

Each employee generates -50% less net income/profit than industry average revenue per employee

Free cash flow (FCF) generated per employee: 

79.5K

Each employee generates 36% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Assets/Capital per employee

189.2K

Each employee generates 36% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Research & Development (R&D) Analysis

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Competitors/Peer firms of 

ADS

ATLAS CORP. (XNYS:ATCO)

AXOS FINANCIAL, INC. (XNYS:AX)

BANK OF HAWAII CORPORATION (XNYS:BOH)

Nuveen AMT-Free Mu Cr I (XNYS:NVG)

Nuveen Quality Muni Inc (XNYS:NAD)

MET-PF

FEDERATED HERMES, INC. (XNYS:FHI)

NELNET, INC. (XNYS:NNI)

First Bancorp (XNYS:FBP)

Current Analyst Ratings

Strong buy�25%

Buy�38%

Hold�42%

Sell�4%

Strong sell�4%

Overall analyst sentiment is: Hold

Income Statement

Period:

TTM

Date:

3/31/22

Revenue:

3.50B

Cost of Revenue:

Gross Profit:

R&D Expense

General & Admin Expenses:

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Sales and Marketing Expenses

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EBITDA:

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Income Tax Expense:

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Balance Sheet

Date:

Calendar Year:

Period:

Cash & Cash Equivalents:

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Cash & Short Term Investments:

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Inventory:

Other Current Assets:

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PP&E:

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Intangible Assets: 

Long Term Investments: 

Tax Assets: 

Other Non-Current Assets: 

Total Non-Current Assets: 

Other Assets: 

Total Assets: 

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Other Non-Current Liabilities:

Total Non Current Liabilities:

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Total Liabilities:

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Retained Earnings:

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss:

Other Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:

Total Investments:

Total Debt:

Net Debt:

986.90M

1.58B

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298.10M

489.10M

31.00M

654.70M

933.80M

1.07B

79.00M

110.00M

1.14B

843.30M

724.80M

951.50M

229.70M

724.80M

Statement of Cash Flow

Date:

Period:

21.00M

Differed Income Tax :

- 48000.00K

Stock Based Compensation :

7.00M

Change in Working Capital :

71.00M

Accounts Receivables:

-

Other Working Capital:

-

Other Non-Cash Items:

236.00M

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:

497.00M

Investments in PP&E:

-

Net Acquisitions:

-

Purchases of Investments:

- 18000.00K

Sales/Maturities of Investments:

Other Investing Activities:

​Net Cash Used for Investing Activities:

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Cash at End of Period:

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Free Cash Flow (FCF):

3/31/22

2022

Q1

2.93B

233.00M

3.16B

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220.00M

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233.00M

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1.14B

22.07B

20.94B

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6.78B

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6.78B

25.45B

18.67B

1.00M

113.00M

- 9000.0K

2.16B

March 31, 2022 at 6:00:00 AM

1.92B

2.27B

20.94B

466.00M

6.78B

3.8B

12.00M

316.00M

310.00M

- 1362000.00K

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- 10000.00K

288.00M

- 1096000.00K

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- 289000.00K

3.63B

3.92B

497.00M

- 20000.00K

477.00M

Our Proprietary Portfolio Rating

Our Rating:

A

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Price Forecast/Expected Price in Next 5 Years of

ADS

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

$43.36

$30.57

$34.65

$39.28

$44.53

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