Here's Why Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH) is a Strong Momentum Stock

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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

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Momentum investors, who live by the saying "the trend is your friend," are most interested in taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Utilizing one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, among other factors, the Momentum Style Score can help determine favorable times to buy high-momentum stocks.

Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH)

Based in New York, Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture, market, sell and distributes over-the-counter (“OTC”) healthcare and household cleaning products in United States, Canada, Australia and certain other international markets. The company provides its products to mass merchandisers as well as drug, food, dollar, convenience, and club stores. Also, Prestige Consumer Healthcare operates through the e-commerce channel.

PBH is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock, with a Momentum Style Score of B and VGM Score of B. Shares are down 1.9% over the past one week and up 5.1% over the past four weeks. PBH has gained 17.6% in the last one-year period as well. Looking at trading volume, an average of 253,194.41 shares exchanged hands over the last 20 trading days.

Momentum investors don't just pay attention to price changes; positive earnings play a crucial role, too. Four analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days for fiscal 2024. The Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.02 to $4.33 per share. PBH boasts an average earnings surprise of 2.4%.

PBH should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.

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