Currently, Las Vegas Sands Corp (NYSE:LVS) has a Buy using Louis Navellier's investing methodology and his Portfolio Grader stock evaluator. This represents no change from the previous week and is the same ranking LVS has had from Portfolio Grader for the last month.

The company is a constituent of the 120 company Hotels Restaurants & Leisure GICS industry group, which is part of the 569 company GICS Consumer Discretionary sector. The market value of LVS is $52.0 billion which places it in the top 10% of its industry group The ranking for LVS by Portfolio Grader places it 32 among the 120 companies in this industry group, placing it in the top half.

Currently, Portfolio Grader ranks the Consumer Discretionary sector number 12 among the 12 sectors in its universe putting it as the least attractive sector of all the GICS sectors. The Hotels Restaurants & Leisure industry group is ranked 42 among the 69 industry groups within the GICS sectors, placing it below-average in terms of the Navellier scoring system.

LVS has realized above-average scores in 3 of the 8 fundamental areas evaluated by Portfolio Grader and average or below-average grades in 5 of the areas used in the ranking of company stocks.

The company's operational scores are below the industry norms for sales growth, operating margin, and earnings growth. Scores for visibility of earnings are mixed, with a ranking for earnings revisions and earnings surprises that are better than average, while the score for earnings momentum is worse than average. LVS's score for return on equity is decidedly better than its industry group average but its grade for cash flow is below-average. These fundamental scores give Las Vegas Sands a position in the top quartile of the industry group.

The Navellier Proprietary Quantitative Score is used by Portfolio Grader to view LVS's shares from the angle of risk/reward. This unique scoring methodology balances the relative value of LVS's shares based on the current price of the shares relative to its peers, the market and risk associated with its industry and sector groups. Using this risk/reward calculation, the company currently scores above-average in its industry group compared to its peers.

Louis Navellier's proprietary Portfolio Grader stock ranking system assesses roughly 5,000 companies every week based on a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. Stocks are given a letter grade based on their results, with A being 'strong buy' and F being 'strong sell'. Explore the tool here.

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