Jefferies Maintains a 'Hold' on America's Car-Mart (CRMT); Growing Pains

August 27, 2012 7:56 AM EDT Send to a Friend
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Price: $46.50 +1.00%

Rating Summary:
    2 Buy, 1 Hold, 0 Sell

Rating Trend: Up Up

Today's Overall Ratings:
    Up: 11 | Down: 18 | New: 13
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Jefferies maintains a 'Hold' on America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT) price target of $42.00.

Analyst, Daniel Furtado, said, "CRMT reported Q1'13 EPS of $0.83 below our estimate of $0.91 mainly due to a $200 reduction in ASP and increased provision, which ticked up to 21.8% from 20.4% Y/Y, as newer stores begin to ramp. Margins remained intact at 42.8%, and SSS came in at 5.5% . CMRT repurchased 216k shares in Q1, or 2.3% of the company, and increased the auth. to another 1M shares."

FY12 EPS estimate lowered from $3.62 to $3.49 and FY13 from $3.97 to $3.91.

For an analyst ratings summary and ratings history on America's Car-Mart click here. For more ratings news on America's Car-Mart click here.

Shares of America's Car-Mart closed at $45.28 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $25.81-$49.20.


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