Trend Analysis Report – Kimco Realty Corp (NYSE:KIM) Nutanix Inc (NASDAQ:NTNX)
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Shares of Kimco Realty Corp (NYSE:KIM) gained 0.36% to $19.74 on Wednesday. A self-administered real estate investment trust reported 2Q results. The company on Wednesday stated a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations.
The real estate investment trust, based in New Hyde Park, New York, said it had funds from operations of $160.7 million, or 38 cents per share, in the period. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 38 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization. The company said it had net income of $131.9 million, or 31 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $297.2 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $292.8 million, which beat Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks predictable $292.4 million. Kimco Realty anticipates full-year funds from operations in the range of $1.50 to $1.54 per share.
The stock price floated in a range of $19.47 – 19.89. The stock moved on high volume, traded at a volume of 5,164,422 shares, as compared to its average daily volume of 6.15M shares. The market capitalization for the company is reported at $8.74B.
Nutanix Inc (NASDAQ:NTNX) declined -0.76 points or -3.20% at the market. Just before the market close, Nutanix (NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, recently declared that the Aegis Aged Care Group has adopted the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to support its 50 per cent growth plans over the next five years. This will also give the group the IT capability to enable new computer software programs in the provision of premium care to its existing 2,500 residents.
The stock opened at $23.74. It reached an intraday trading high of $23.90 and closed at $22.97. The total volume traded for the day is 2,823,184, as compared to its average daily volume of 4.03M shares. The current EPS for the company has been recorded at $-3.98 and the beta value recorded by the company stands at N/A points.
Privately-owned, Aegis is the leading provider of residential aged care services in Western Australia. It employs over 3,000 staff across 28 facilities ensuring there is always a high ratio of staff to residents to provide personalized care. Aegis is technology-driven – with all staff working through tablets and making sure resident care records are always accurate.
The organization has more than doubled the size of its business over the past seven years, driven by a shortage in available aged care beds and the impact of the nation’s ageing population. Health policy analyst Martyn Goddard recently stated that 868 more acute hospital beds are needed to match other states in Australia1. Aegis is looking to replicate this growth over the next five years.
“It’s important that our IT environment can scale with us,” said Sebastian Klaus, Senior ICT Services Consultant, Aegis Aged Care. “The modular nature of Nutanix ensures we can scale easily, node by node. This – together with the simple one-click administration – was a huge selling point for us. We had the whole environment up and running in just 40 minutes.”
Aegis has a small IT team of just three, so another key consideration in deploying Nutanix was its ability to run all applications, counting its Resident Care administration system, with very little input from the team. This has freed them up to focus on more important matters such as implementing electronic systems for other departments.
The platform has also given time back to administration staff within Aegis – the increase in performance has sped up the invoicing process considerably, meaning admin staff spend less time dealing with paperwork and more time looking after residents. The physical size of the datacenter has also been reduced by around 70 per cent.
“The aged care sector has practiced incredible transformation through technology,” said Matt Young, SVP and Head of Asia Pacific and Japan at Nutanix. “What started as an advent for going paperless has evolved into wearables, smart sensors and a host of other developments that can improve resident care and safety.”
“The simple truth is that legacy datacenters aren’t equipped to manage this. Implementing an enterprise cloud solution allows Aegis to leverage technology with the comfort that their IT infrastructure can scale up and meet the new demands that come with it.”
