PNC Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE: is ranked as a Hold using Louis Navellier's Portfolio Grader stock evaluator, which incorporates his investing methodology. PNC has been downgraded from a Buy to a Hold in the last week.
PNC is a component of the 343 company Banks GICS industry group, which is part of the 766 company GICS Financials sector. PNC has a market value of $66.0 billion which is in the top decile in its industry group Portfolio Grader's current ranking for PNC puts it 140 among the 343 companies in this industry group, placing it in the top half.
Currently, Portfolio Grader ranks the Financials sector number 7 among the 12 sectors in its universe putting it in the third quartile of all the GICS sectors. The Banks industry group is ranked 37 among the 69 industry groups within the GICS sectors, placing it below-average in terms of the Navellier scoring system.
PNC Financial Services Group has attained above-average scores in 3 of the 8 fundamental areas analyzed by Portfolio Grader and average or below-average scores in 5 of the areas evaluated in the ranking of company stocks.
The company's operational scores provide mixed results with a ranking for operating margin that is below-average, while the scores for sales growth and earnings growth are above average. Scores for visibility of earnings are mixed, with rankings for earnings surprises and earnings revisions that are worse than average, while the score for earnings momentum is better than average. PNC's scores for return on equity and cash flow are worse than its industry group average. These fundamental scores give PNC Financial Services Group a position in the top half of the industry group.
Portfolio Grader uses the Navellier Proprietary Quantitative Score to measure PNC's shares from the aspect of risk/reward. This proprietary scoring system assesses the relative value of PNC's shares based on the current price of the shares relative to its peers, the market and risk associated with its industry and sector groups. Considering this risk/reward calculation, the company currently scores as average in its industry group compared to its peers.
Louis Navellier's proprietary Portfolio Grader stock ranking system assesses roughly 5,000 companies every week based on a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. Stocks are given a letter grade based on their results, with A being 'strong buy' and F being 'strong sell'. Explore the tool .
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