Realogy Holdings Corp. (RLGY) grew with the stock adding 0.86% or $0.19 to close at $22.39 on active trading volume of 2.25M compared its three months average trading volume of 1.57M. The Madison New Jersey 07940 based company operating under the Property Management industry has been trending down for the last 52 weeks, with the shares price now -43.4% down for the period and down by -38.74% so far this year. With price target of $34.67 and a 1.04% rebound from 52-week low, Realogy Holdings Corp. has plenty of upside potential, making it a hold with a view buy.
Realogy Holdings Corp. provides real estate and relocation services worldwide. The company’s Real Estate Franchise Services segment franchise its real estate brokerage franchise systems under the Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker Commercial, ERA, Sotheby’s International Realty, and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand names to real estate brokerage businesses. As of June 30, 2016, this segment’s real estate franchise systems had approximately 13,600 offices; and approximately 261,000 independent sales associates worldwide. Its Company Owned Real Estate Brokerage Services segment owns and operates a full-service real estate brokerage business primarily under the Coldwell Banker, Corcoran Group, Sotheby’s International Realty, ZipRealty, and Citi Habitats brand names to assist home buyers and sellers in listing, marketing, selling, and finding homes. Its Relocation Services segment offers outsourced employee relocation services, such as homesale assistance, home equity advances to transferees, home finding and other destination services, expense processing, relocation policy counseling and consulting services, arranging household goods moving services, visa and immigration support, intercultural and language training, and group move management services to corporate clients for the transfer of their employees, as well as home buying and selling assistance to members of affinity clients. The company’s Title and Settlement Services segment provides title, settlement, and vendor management services to real estate companies, affinity groups, corporations, and financial institutions. This segment also serves as an underwriter of title insurance policies in connection with residential and commercial real estate transactions. Realogy Holdings Corp. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Madison, New Jersey.
American Capital, Ltd. (ACAS) dropped $-0.02 to close the day at a new closing price of $16.89, a -0.12% decrease in value from its previous closing price that moved the stock 39.13% above its 52 week low of $12.14. A total of 2.23M shares exchanged hands during the day compared with its three month average trading volume of 1.87M. The stock currently situated -1.52% below its 52 week high. The stock is down by -0.53% in the past one month and up by 2.24% over the past three months. With a one year target estimate of $17.75 and RSI of 42.01, the stock still has upside potential, making it a hold for now.
American Capital, Ltd. is a business development company specializing in management and employee buyouts, subordinated debt, leveraged finance, mezzanine, acquisition, recapitalization, middle market, early venture, mature, industry consolidation, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in senior debt mezzanine, unitranche, and equity financing for buyouts of private equity firms and direct in private and public companies. It also invests in special situations and in government. In special situations, the firm invests in troubled situations and in distressed situations. The firm also considers smaller investments as add-on acquisitions for existing portfolio companies. In this area, it invests in acquisitions of true turnarounds, 363 auctions, portfolio add-on acquisitions, operationally challenged companies; financings in exit, ABL loans, second lien refinance, and direct lending to distressed companies. The firm invests in manufacturing, services, and distribution companies with a special focus on energy sector. The firm also invests in infrastructure and structured products. The firm also invests in business services, consumer products and services, industrial, healthcare and food companies. The firm prefers to invest in Information Technology focusing on Custom information technology solutions, Technology and software enabling headcount reduction, and Technology and software enabling cost reductions in conducting transactions with or within government. The firm also invests in digital media and entertainment, internet and consumer related, communications, mobile and wireless, security and data center infrastructure, software and services, semiconductor, and other innovative technologies. The firm also invests in a variety of industry sectors, including life science services, medical device, medical tools and equipment, and healthcare services, among others. In energy production sector, the firm invests in lower risk oil and gas exploration, production and development; natural gas liquids; coal mining and coal-fired generation; uranium mining and nuclear-fired generation; wind-powered generation; and solar-powered generation. In energy transmission sector, the firm invests in oil and gas pipelines; LNG tankers and regasification facilities; and power transmission. In energy distribution sector, it targets propane distribution; gas distribution; electricity distribution. In energy services sector, the firm invests in oil and gas services and utility services. The firm also targets investments in companies that provide services or products to federal, state or local governments. It seeks to invest in human resources/benefit administration, outsourcing, transaction processing, engineering and construction, logistics, original equipment manufacturers – homeland security and component, aftermarket parts and supplies, and technology. It also invests in real estate and insurance. It invests as lead or participative investor and also makes equity co-investments. The firm seeks to invest globally focusing on Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Mid-Atlantic, New England, North East Unites States, Canada, Central America & Mexico, and Caribbean. The firm and its affiliates invest between $10 million to $750 million per company in North America and 10 ($13.34 million) to 400 million ($533.99 million) per company in Europe. The firm’s investment range is between $5 million and $25 million and higher depending on the opportunity. The firm targets new investments with at least $10 million in EBITDA and enterprise values of typical transaction from $20 million and $500 million. The firm invests senior debt, subordinated debt and equity allows us to provide one-stop financing up to $500 million. The firm also has the resources to deploy over $100 million into high growth later stage companies. In special situations group, the firm invests between $20 million and $750 million per transaction in a variety of investments, including: buyouts operational turnarounds, corporate orphans and carve-outs, complex management buyouts, financings dip financings, exit financings, and mezzanine financings for sponsored buyouts. In buyouts, the firm invests in companies having Enterprise Value of up to $1600 million. In federal, state and local government, the firm invests between $10 million and $500 million in a single transaction. The firm prefers to be a majority or minority investor and makes direct minority investments of subordinated debt, senior debt and equity in middle market private and public companies. The firm prefers to take minority ownership position of up to 49%. American Capital, Ltd., formerly known as American Capital Strategies, Ltd., was founded in 1986 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
BlackBerry Limited (BBRY) shares were down in last trading by -0.28% to $7. It experienced lighter than average volume on day. The stock decreased in value by almost -1.96% over the past week and fell -8.62% in the past month. It is currently trading -7.78% below its 50 day moving average and -4.41% below its 200 day moving average. Following the recent decrease in price, the stock’s new closing price represents a -26% decrease in value from its one year high of $9.46. The RSI indicator value of 30.65, lead us to believe that it is a hold for now.
BlackBerry Limited develops and sells smartphones and other devices under the BlackBerry brand name worldwide. The company develops and offers smartphones with the BlackBerry 10 OS and Android OS, as well as BlackBerry 10 smartphones; and enterprise mobility management and mobile security software, and a portfolio of enterprise software solutions and services that could be deployed across a range of ecosystems and devices. It also licenses QNX software products in embedded market; provides BlackBerry IoT Platform for the asset tracking industry; and offers operating systems, middleware, development tools, and professional services for connected embedded systems primarily in the automotive, medical, and industrial automation markets, as well as provides professional services to support customers in developing their products. In addition, the company offers AtHoc software platform that enables people, devices, and organizations to exchange information in real time during business continuity and life safety operations; and BlackBerry Messenger platform for messaging, and for in-app advertising and virtual goods store. Further, it provides high-security voice and data encryption and anti-eavesdropping solutions; and virtual identity solutions for mobile operators, as well as repairs, accessories, and other telecommunications services. BlackBerry Limited markets and sells its BlackBerry smartphone products to enterprise and consumer end users primarily through wireless communications carriers, as well as through third party distribution channels. It serves enterprise customers, principally in regulated industries and select vertical markets, including government, financial services, legal, and healthcare. The company was formerly known as Research In Motion Limited and changed its name to BlackBerry Limited in July 2013. BlackBerry Limited was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.
