Dog Stocks Are Not Dogs

You can tell how much people love their dogs just by the amount of money they spend on them. For example, they purchase $4,000 for a dog house, $9,000 for a sapphire dog collar, and a $500 food bowl for dogs.

With money being spent like this on luxury items, not to mention food, toys, medical care, and numerous other pet items, the companies operating in this field are benefiting greatly. Here are a few stocks that are taking a bite out of this opportunity, which are from the free list of pet stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Petsmart Inc. (PETM) is a Phoenix, Arizona based company with a market cap of $8.25 billion market cap. Petsmart markets toys, food, grooming, baths, nail trimming, tooth brushing, training and boarding. The stock trades at 19 times trailing earnings, a forward price to earnings ratio of 15, and pays a small yield of 0.9%. Earnings were up slightly for the latest quarter on a 6% rise in revenues.

VCA Antech Inc. (WOOF) provides veterinary services and animal diagnostic testing services and products. They also have one of the best stock tickers. The P/E is 34 and the forward P/E is 21. Quarterly earnings jumped 14.7% on a 10.2% boost in earnings.

Patterson Companies Inc. (PDCO) is a veterinary supply business, marketing lab supplies, paper goods, syringes, wound dressings, sutures, latex gloves, pharmaceuticals, ointments, and diagnostics to veterinarians. The P/E ratio is 23, and the forward P/E is 20. The stock sports a yield of 1.6%.

For a list of other companies in the business of pets, download it at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author had no position in any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Get a Dog, Avoid a Heart Attack

According to a recent report by the American Heart Association, owning a dog was “probably associated” with a reduced risk of heart disease. Maybe that's why about 62 percent of all households in the United States have a pet, with approximately 78.2 million dogs and about 86.4 million cats owned by Americans, according to the American Pet Products Association.

If you are looking for top dog stocks, you should consider the the suppliers of pet products, veterinary products, and pet medications. According to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, there are about ten different pet related stocks, with almost half of them paying dividends.

Petsmart Inc. (PETM) is a Phoenix, Arizona based company that markets products for dogs, cats, birds, fish, and even horses. In addition to selling toys, food, and other products, and also offer services such as dog grooming, baths, toenail trimming, and tooth brushing, training and boarding at their Pet Hotels. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 19.5, and pays a yield of 0.9%. The company must be doing something right as earnings for the latest quarter were up 31.4% on a 14.7% rise in revenues.

There is also Patterson Companies Inc. (PDCO) which has a veterinary supply business. Patterson Companies Inc. distributes lab supplies, paper goods, needles and syringes, gauze and wound dressings, sutures, latex gloves, orthopedic, and casting products; pharmaceuticals, including anesthetics, antibiotics, injectibles, ointments, and diagnostics to veterinarians. The stock trades at 19.4 times earnings. The company also pays a dividend of 1.7%. Revenues were up 2.3% for the latest quarter, with earnings up 1%.

MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc. (MWIV) distributes pharmaceuticals, vaccines, diagnostics, capital equipment, supplies, veterinary pet food, and nutritional products to veterinarians. The P/E is 25.3 and the stock does not pay a dividend. For the latest quarter, earnings were up 14.6% on an 11% boost in revenues.

For a list of all the pet related stocks, which you can download, sort, and add to, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the aboveat the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Top Dog Stocks

Dog lovers really love their dogs. They pay $14,000 for dog houses, $3900 for silver dog collars, and designer clothes for dogs. Dog fans have paid handsomely for dogs, as much as $580,000 for a dog.

So what are the top dog stock plays, and I'm not talking about the 'dogs of the Dow.' Dogs are big business and are big consumers of food, toys, medical care, and numerous other pet items. There are a few ways you can sink your teeth into this investment sector without barking up the wrong tree.

Petsmart Inc. (PETM) is a Phoenix company that is one of the few publicly traded be-all and do-all companies for dogs and other pets. In addition to selling toys, food, and other products, and also offer services such as grooming, baths, toenail trimming, and tooth brushing, training and boarding at their Pet Hotels, through their website and their stores. The stock has a P/E of 20.6, a price earnings to growth ratio of 1.33, and pays a yield of 1.2%.

There is also Patterson Companies Inc. (PDCO) which has a veterinary supply business. Patterson Companies Inc. distributes lab supplies, paper goods, needles and syringes, gauze and wound dressings, sutures, latex gloves, orthopedic, and casting products; pharmaceuticals, including anesthetics, antibiotics, injectibles, ointments, and diagnostics to veterinarians. The P/E is 18, and the PEG is 1.27. The company also pays a dividend of 1.3%.

MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc. (MWIV) distributes pharmaceuticals, vaccines, diagnostics, capital equipment, supplies, veterinary pet food, and nutritional products to veterinarians. The P/E is 18.6 and the PEG is 1.16.

VCA Antech Inc. (WOOF) provides veterinary services and animal diagnostic testing services and products. The P/E is 18 and the PEG is 1.28.

Animal Health International, Inc. (AHII) sells about 35,000 animal health products. The forward P/E is 5.6 and a PEG of 0.51. This is a very low cap stock and should be considered very speculative.

Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC) distributes health products for humans and animal and practice-management software systems for dental and medical practitioners and animal health clinics. The P/E is 17.5 and the PEG is 1.16.

PetMed Express Inc. (PETS) markets prescription and non-prescription pet medications and other health products for animals. The P/E is 19, and the PEG is 1.26. The stock pays a yield of 1.9%.

Central Garden & Pet Co. (CENT) sells edible bones, premium edible and non-edible chews, premium dog and cat food, leashes, collars, toys, pet carriers, grooming supplies, and other pet accessories. The P/E is 11 and the PEG is 0.93.

Heska Corp. (HSKA) makes and markets veterinary health products for the canine market. The stock has a PE of 19. This is a very low cap stock and should be considered very speculative.

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Author owns HSKA.

By Stockerblog.com