Navient Corp. To Outperform Average Market Performance For The Next Year?

For today's edition of our upgrade list, we have UPGRADES to BUY or STRONG BUY with complete forecast and valuation data. They are presented by one-month forecast return. Navient Corporation (NAVI) is our top-rated upgrade this week.

Below is today's data on Navient Corporation (NAVI):

Navient Corporation offers a variety of loan management, servicing and asset recovery services to clients in higher education, and federal, state, and local governments. The Company operates in four segments: Consumer Lending, Business Services, FFELP Loans and Other. The Company acts as a servicer for Department of Education and FFELP loans as well as private student loans. Navient Corporation is based in United States.

Recommendation: We updated our recommendation from BUY to STRONG BUY for NAVIENT CORP on 2016-09-30. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that NAVIENT CORP has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE P/E Ratio and Company Size.

 

ValuEngine Forecast

 

Target
Price*

Expected
Return

1-Month

14.63 1.13%

3-Month

14.95 3.32%

6-Month

15.19 5.00%

1-Year

16.44 13.63%

2-Year

16.04 10.83%

3-Year

15.63 8.00%

 

Valuation & Rankings

Valuation

0.45% undervalued

Valuation Rank

50

1-M Forecast Return

1.13%

1-M Forecast Return Rank

99

12-M Return

28.74%

Momentum Rank

77

Sharpe Ratio

-0.11

Sharpe Ratio Rank

41

5-Y Avg Annual Return

-4.19%

5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank

41

Volatility

37.03%

Volatility Rank

48

Expected EPS Growth

6.10%

EPS Growth Rank

34

Market Cap (billions)

5.81

Size Rank

85

Trailing P/E Ratio

7.79

Trailing P/E Rank

96

Forward P/E Ratio

7.35

Forward P/E Ratio Rank

93

PEG Ratio

1.28

PEG Ratio Rank

36

Price/Sales

1.17

Price/Sales Rank

63

Market/Book

1.93

Market/Book Rank

53

Beta

2.38

Beta Rank

8

Alpha

-0.11

Alpha Rank

37

Market Overview

Summary of VE Stock Universe

Stocks Undervalued

51.95%

Stocks Overvalued

48.05%

Stocks Undervalued by 20%

20.77%

Stocks Overvalued by 20%

16.12%

Sector Overview

Sector

Change

MTD

YTD

Valuation

Last 12-MReturn

P/E Ratio

Multi-Sector Conglomerates

-0.27%

-0.67%

7.28%

18.23% overvalued

7.32%

20.26

Industrial Products

-0.76%

1.64%

17.67%

7.32% overvalued

18.06%

24.06

Oils-Energy

0.55%

2.74%

34.10%

7.12% overvalued

5.17%

25.19

Computer and Technology

-0.64%

1.76%

17.53%

5.87% overvalued

14.14%

30.11

Consumer Staples

-0.63%

-0.44%

10.13%

3.44% overvalued

17.71%

24.44

Basic Materials

-0.60%

1.05%

46.43%

2.71% overvalued

67.80%

31.59

Utilities

-0.71%

1.00%

11.47%

2.03% overvalued

18.31%

22.01

Aerospace

-0.81%

1.56%

2.33%

1.49% overvalued

11.37%

18.32

Business Services

-0.89%

-0.33%

13.60%

0.04% overvalued

3.38%

24.75

Finance

-0.83%

-0.46%

6.63%

0.12% undervalued

7.90%

16.49

Consumer Discretionary

-0.48%

0.53%

9.06%

0.55% undervalued

6.52%

24.17

Construction

-0.86%

-0.40%

29.26%

3.87% undervalued

18.16%

20.15

Medical

-1.76%

1.61%

1.82%

4.19% undervalued

-2.52%

26.88

Auto-Tires-Trucks

-1.26%

1.44%

6.27%

4.76% undervalued

13.34%

13.80

Transportation

-0.41%

-0.47%

10.62%

4.79% undervalued

-8.63%

15.35

Retail-Wholesale

-0.68%

-2.29%

-0.17%

8.40% undervalued

-0.13%

22.03

VALUATION WATCH: Overvalued stocks now make up 48.22% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 16.53% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Nine sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

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