TTS stock: buy or sell?
Updated on:
August 22nd, 2019
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Tile Shop Holdings, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of manufactured and natural stone tiles, setting and maintenance materials, and related accessories in the United States.
Should I buy TTS stock?
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| Buy setup | Elegible |
|---|---|
| New all-time high | No |
| New 52 week high | No |
| Price crossing up 200d MA | No |
| 100d MA crossing up 200d MA | No |
Is Tile Shop Hldgs stock a buy?
Banks and financial institutions publish stock ratings everyday.
At Stocks2.com, we gathered 2 ratings published for TTS stock in the last month.| Date | Analyst / Broker | Previous rating | Current rating |
| 2019-7-23 | Loop Capital | n/a | Hold |
| 2019-5-1 | Citigroup | Buy | Neutral |
TTS stock analysis
Daily outlook
Shares of Tile Shop Hldgs ended today at $2.76 and rocketed a dazzling 5.34%.
Tile Shop Hldgs closed today at $2.76 and rocketed a dazzling 5.34%.
Weekly outlook
After sliding for 4 weeks, this week Tile Shop Hldgs climbed an exceptional 18.97%, closing at $2.76. Late July TTS plummed a spooky -9.56% in just one week. This week broke a streak of 4 declining weeks.
Since price and 40-weeks moving average lines crossed down by mid February, TTS fell $-4.42 per share (-61.56%). Stocks under the 200d moving average line are usually not recommended for average traders.
TTS stock price history
TTS IPO was on August 22nd, 2012 at $11.15 per share1. Since then, TTS stock lost a -75.20%, with a yearly average of -10.70%.
1: Adjusted price after possible price splits or reverse-splits.
TTS stock historical price chart
TTS stock reached 52-week highs on September at $7.84, and all-time highs 2013-07-11 with a price of 28.45.
TTS stock price target is $3.00
Nobody can reliably foresee how stock prices may evolve in the future. However, banks and other financial institutions analysts, with the help of lots of data and algorithms do their best to predict the stock prices movement. The accuracy of these stock price predictions is not very high, and you should not blindly believe and make decisions only based on what this ratings or price target predictions say. Currently, only 1 price prediction for Tile Shop Hldgs stock was published in the last 30 days:| Date | Analyst / Broker | Action | Previous target | Current target | Diff |
| 2019-7-23 | Loop Capital | Reiterates | $5.00 | $3.00 | -40% |
| (in average) | $5.00 | $3.00 | -40.0% |
Financials and fundamental analysis
Earnings date and Earnings per Share
Since last February, when Tile Shop Hldgs posted its last earnings report, it . Unfortunately, reported EPS is not yet available in our database.| Quarter | Reporting date | Estimated EPS | Actual EPS | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-Q2 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2017-Q3 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2017-Q4 | 2018-02-21 | 0.05 | -0.05 | n/a |
| 2018-Q1 | 2018-04-19 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 14.3% |
| 2018-Q2 | 2018-07-19 | 0.09 | 0.1 | 11.1% |
| 2018-Q3 | 2018-10-18 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.0% |
| 2018-Q4 | 2019-02-19 | n/a | -0.02 | n/a |
| 2019-Q1 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2019-Q2 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2019-Q3 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Annual financial results
In 2018, Tile Shop Hldgs annual sales raised a fine 3.67% to $357.25 million dollars from $344.60 marked in 2017. When comparing 2018 vs 2017, instead, profit margin (that is, the net income divided by revenues) stayed constant a -0.22% to 2.92%.| Year | Sales | YoY | Income/(margin) | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $230 M | - | $-35.66 M-15.5% | - |
| 2014 | $257 M | 12.04% | $11 M4.1% | -129.58% |
| 2015 | $293 M | 13.92% | $16 M5.4% | 48.82% |
| 2016 | $324 M | 10.64% | $18 M5.7% | 17.63% |
| 2017 | $345 M | 6.31% | $11 M3.1% | -41.40% |
| 2018 | $357 M | 3.67% | $10 M2.9% | -3.48% |
Quarterly financial results
Tile Shop Hldgs posted $83.95 M in sales for 2018-Q4, a -5.95% decline compared to previous quarter. Reported quarter earnings marked $-1.08 M with a profit margin of -1.29%. Profit margin depreciated a -4.15% compared to previous quarter when profit margin was 2.86%. When comparing sales to same quarter last year, Tile Shop Hldgs sales marked a shining growth and jumped a 6.83%. Looking back to recent quarterly results, Tile Shop Hldgs posted 2 positive quarters in a row.| Quarter | Sales1 | QoQ2 | Income1/(margin) | QoQ2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-Q2 | $89 M | - | $8 M8.6% | - |
| 2017-Q3 | $84 M | -5.63% | $2 M2.9% | -68.39% |
| 2017-Q4 | $79 M | -6.92% | $-7 M-9.4% | -401.27% |
| 2018-Q1 | $91 M | 15.98% | $4 M4.4% | -154.56% |
| 2018-Q2 | $93 M | 1.95% | $5 M5.3% | 23.61% |
| 2018-Q3 | $89 M | -3.93% | $3 M2.9% | -48.51% |
| 2018-Q4 | $84 M | -5.95% | $-1 M-1.3% | -142.30% |
| 2019-Q1 | $87 M | 3.53% | $1 M1.5% | -222.22% |
Tile Shop Hldgs ownership
When you are planning to invest in shares of a company, it's always worth to have a look its ownership structure.Tile Shop Hldgs shares owned by insiders (that is, founders, CEO, CTO, main executives or other management staff) currently counts a 79.66% of all shares.
In case of Tile Shop Hldgs stock, 0.00% of its shares are held by institutions (mutual funds, pension funds, big banks and other large financial institutions). Bearish positions for TTS stock account 0.00%, no big difference from last month.
For a better understanding, the next table shows ownership data compared to other related companies:
| TTS | COMM | FRAN | RH | SPWH | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $143.6 M | $2.1 B | $136.8 M | $2.7 B | $156.0 M |
| Total shares | 52.0 M | 193.6 M | 34.8 M | 18.6 M | 43.0 M |
| Float shares | 36.4 M | 168.9 M | 2.2 M | 15.8 M | 40.0 M |
| - Institutional holdings (%) | 0.0% | 99.8% | 98.9% | 126.2% | 91.8% |
| - Insider holdings (%) | 79.7% | 1.7% | 1.3% | 12.5% | 2.6% |
| Shares in short selling | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
TTS summary
| Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Open | $2.65 |
| Close | $2.76 |
| Day range | $2.65 - $2.80 |
| Previous close | $2.62 |
| Session gain | 5.34% |
| Average true range | $0.17 |
| 50d mov avg | $3.34 |
| 100d mov avg | $4.07 |
| 200d mov avg | $5.06 |
| Daily pattern | |
| Weekly pattern | lb06a |
Tile Shop Hldgs performance
To better understand Tile Shop Hldgs performance you must becnhmark its gains with other related stocks in same sector or industry. For Tile Shop Hldgs, the benchmark is made against CommScope, Francesca's, and Sportsman's Warehouse.| Stock | 3m | 6m | 12m |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTSTile Shop Hldgs | -37.84% | -53.38% | -63.68% |
| COMMCommScope | -38.80% | -55.16% | -65.41% |
| FRANFrancesca's | -35.78% | -62.78% | -95.25% |
| RH | 64.67% | 0.00% | -6.20% |
| SPWHSportsman's W... | -12.11% | -42.01% | -40.69% |