American Superconductor Corporation – Issues Upside Guidance

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC). Last Market Price: 5.02, Change: +0.55, % Change: (12.30%). Shares trade in the range of 4.85 – 5.44 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 254.52M dollars, making it a Small Cap Stock and has 50.70M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.5, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 0.86; P/E of 5.85. It operates in Technology sector and belongs to Electronic Instr. and Controls industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 43%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 38.88 and a 52 week low of $ 4.34. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 1,250,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 2,210,000, 1.77 times the average volume.

• For the quarter ending September 30, 2011, company currently expects that its revenues will exceed $18 million

For Q4 (Dec ’10), It had a Net profit margin of 14.01%, an Operating margin of 18.80%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 11.61%, Return on average equity of 15.55%. The organization has an employee strength of 714

Consensus Recommendation is a Hold.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Sep-11 show a mean of 37.74 million dollars, an estimate high of 94.70 million dollars and an estimate low of 14.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 130.29 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 47.74 million dollars, an estimate high of 115.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 19.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 138.15 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Sep-11 show a mean of -0.10 dollars, an estimate high of 0.26 dollars and an estimate low of -0.30 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.40 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of -0.05 dollars, an estimate high of 0.28 dollars and an estimate low of -0.25 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.42 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Dec-10 was estimated at 113.49 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 114.19 million dollars, 0.7 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Sep-10 was estimated at 100.97 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 101.53 million dollars, 0.56 million dollars more than estimates.

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