{"id":9455,"date":"2010-05-21T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2016-09-20T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:12:18","slug":"cree-cree-a-closer-look-by-ibd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/cree-cree-a-closer-look-by-ibd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cree (Cree) : A Closer Look By IBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cree (CREE) makes LED lighting and other energy-efficient products. It is a volatile stock in an sector that appears to be growing exponential. There are few companies that compete and one other that stands out: Veco Instruments (VECO).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\">IBD<\/a>, below are a few key drivers that may provide direction for the stock:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Its earnings hit a rough patch in early 2009, then rebounded in recent quarters. They climbed a hefty 262% last quarter.<\/li>\n<li>Sales growth has been accelerating, with each quarter coming in higher than the previous quarter.<\/li>\n<li> Analysts expect earnings to rise 149% in the 2010 fiscal year, which ends in June. And they see growth cooling to 37% in fiscal 2011. While that&#8217;s slower, it&#8217;s still a respectable level.<\/li>\n<li> The company&#8217;s return on equity is just 5%, which is less than the 17% minimum typically seen in winning stocks. As we&#8217;ve mentioned in other videos, that ratio tells you how efficiently a company is using the money shareholders have invested.<\/li>\n<li> Mutual funds own about 35% of the company&#8217;s available shares. And the number of funds owning the stock has risen in recent quarters, so that&#8217;s a plus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CREEchart0519-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9458 aligncenter\" title=\"CREEchart0519\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CREEchart0519-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/tdi-investment-fund\/\">our fundamental analysis<\/a>, we looked at the trend for earnings and sales. The company has been on a great run and analysts are looking for a great deal more out of the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cree_Sales-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9470 aligncenter\" title=\"cree_Sales\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cree_Sales-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cree_eps1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9471\" title=\"cree_eps\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cree_eps1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cree_geo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9468\" title=\"cree_geo\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cree_geo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cree (CREE) makes LED lighting and other energy-efficient products. It is a volatile stock in an sector that appears to be growing exponential. There are few companies that compete and one other that stands out: Veco Instruments (VECO). According to IBD, below are a few key drivers that may provide direction for the stock: Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42,253],"tags":[490,484],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","category-strategy","tag-stocks","tag-technology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}