Analysts See $0.04 EPS for Exfo (EXFO); Capital International Has Boosted Visa Cl A (V) Holding By $2.99 Million

June 6, 2017 - By Winifred Garcia

Analysts expect Exfo Inc (NASDAQ:EXFO) to report $0.04 EPS on July, 5.They anticipate $0.00 EPS change or 0.00% from last quarter’s $0.04 EPS. EXFO’s profit would be $2.27M giving it 32.81 P/E if the $0.04 EPS is correct. After having $0.04 EPS previously, Exfo Inc’s analysts see 0.00% EPS growth. The stock increased 5.00% or $0.25 on June 5, reaching $5.25. About shares traded. Exfo Inc (NASDAQ:EXFO) has risen 19.54% since June 6, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 2.84% the S&P500.

Capital International Inc increased Visa Inc Cl A (V) stake by 32.05% reported in 2016Q4 SEC filing. Capital International Inc acquired 38,300 shares as Visa Inc Cl A (V)’s stock rose 5.74%. The Capital International Inc holds 157,800 shares with $12.31M value, up from 119,500 last quarter. Visa Inc Cl A now has $224.36 billion valuation. The stock increased 0.42% or $0.4 during the last trading session, reaching $96.55. About 1 shares traded. Visa Inc (NYSE:V) has risen 20.29% since June 6, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 3.59% the S&P500.

Among 23 analysts covering Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), 18 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 5 Hold. Therefore 78% are positive. Visa Inc. had 44 analyst reports since July 21, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The stock of Visa Inc (NYSE:V) earned “Overweight” rating by JP Morgan on Monday, June 6. S&P Research downgraded the stock to “Hold” rating in Tuesday, July 28 report. The rating was initiated by Sterne Agee CRT with “Buy” on Thursday, December 17. Compass Point initiated Visa Inc (NYSE:V) on Friday, April 15 with “Neutral” rating. RBC Capital Markets maintained the shares of V in report on Friday, July 24 with “Outperform” rating. The firm has “Outperform” rating given on Thursday, October 22 by Wells Fargo. The firm has “Buy” rating by Guggenheim given on Monday, December 5. The rating was maintained by RBC Capital Markets on Tuesday, October 25 with “Outperform”. The company was maintained on Friday, January 29 by RBC Capital Markets. FBR Capital maintained it with “Mkt Perform” rating and $80 target in Friday, July 24 report.

Investors sentiment increased to 1.05 in 2016 Q4. Its up 0.12, from 0.93 in 2016Q3. It increased, as 86 investors sold V shares while 540 reduced holdings. 132 funds opened positions while 525 raised stakes. 1.69 billion shares or 1.50% more from 1.66 billion shares in 2016Q3 were reported. Northside Cap Mgmt Limited Company, Oregon-based fund reported 12,760 shares. Tam Cap Mgmt holds 258,628 shares. Guyasuta Investment Advsr Incorporated has 0.03% invested in Visa Inc (NYSE:V). Planning Ltd Company reported 1.91% of its portfolio in Visa Inc (NYSE:V). Magee Thomson Lc owns 4.39% invested in Visa Inc (NYSE:V) for 162,000 shares. Nichols Pratt Advisers Limited Liability Partnership Ma has invested 0.1% in Visa Inc (NYSE:V). Reynders Mcveigh Management Ltd Liability reported 0.21% of its portfolio in Visa Inc (NYSE:V). Leuthold Gru Lc owns 107,907 shares. Piedmont Advsrs Limited Liability accumulated 453,456 shares. Glynn Cap Management Ltd Liability owns 20,000 shares. Sustainable Growth Advisers Limited Partnership has 4.5% invested in Visa Inc (NYSE:V) for 2.89M shares. The Maryland-based Fulton Breakefield Broenniman Limited has invested 1.49% in Visa Inc (NYSE:V). Pineno Levin And Ford Asset Management invested in 17,208 shares. Neuberger Berman Ltd Llc reported 3.39M shares or 0.36% of all its holdings. Eagle Capital Mgmt Limited Co has invested 2.61% in Visa Inc (NYSE:V).

Since February 6, 2017, it had 0 insider buys, and 2 selling transactions for $11.71 million activity. $10.75 million worth of Visa Inc (NYSE:V) was sold by Sheedy William M.. 11,139 shares valued at $957,390 were sold by HOFFMEISTER JAMES H on Monday, February 6.

Capital International Inc decreased Tenaris Sa Adr (NYSE:TS) stake by 52,900 shares to 225,646 valued at $8.06M in 2016Q4. It also reduced Grana Y Montero Saa Adr (NYSE:GRAM) stake by 117,100 shares and now owns 405,800 shares. Banco Bradesco Sa Pn Adr (NYSE:BBD) was reduced too.

Among 6 analysts covering EXFO (NASDAQ:EXFO), 1 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 5 Hold. Therefore 17% are positive. EXFO had 7 analyst reports since September 9, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. RBC Capital Markets maintained the stock with “Sector Perform” rating in Monday, October 5 report. The firm has “Outperform” rating given on Wednesday, September 9 by Northland Capital. As per Thursday, January 7, the company rating was upgraded by IBC. The firm has “Sector Perform” rating given on Thursday, January 7 by National Bank Canada.

EXFO Inc is a Canada-based company, which provides communications service providers and data center, cloud and Web-scale operators with field test, service assurance and analytics solutions to ensure the deployment, maintenance and management of physical, virtual, fixed and mobile networks. The company has market cap of $297.69 million. It focuses on network infrastructures: fourth generation (4G)/long-term evolution (LTE), wireless backhaul, small cells and distributed antenna systems (DAS), 100G network upgrades and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)/fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC)/fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployments. It has a 38.58 P/E ratio. It offers a range of wire line and wireless tests, service assurance and analytics solutions to the global telecommunications industry.