A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc (CCCS)

With 4.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 3.5 million shares. During the session, the Software – Application company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $11.27 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $11.05. The 52-week range on CCCS shows that it touched its highest point at $12.88 and its lowest point at $9.79 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $13.73. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.71.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of CCCS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.20%, but this was down by -5.85% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.65% while six-month performance rose 8.28%. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CCCS yields 0.07 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.39. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.57% for this year and 6.60% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 625.33 million CCCS shares are outstanding with a float of 440.74 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 16.07 million, which was 245.00001 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Githesh Ramamurthy as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Brian Herb CPA serves as its Executive VP, CFO & Chief Administrative Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.95739996 of CCCS’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, CCCS reported revenue of $238481000.0 and operating income of $28688000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $60503000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.004377.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CCCS since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CCCS analysts setting a high price target of 15.0 and a low target of 12.01, the average target price over the next 12 months is 13.58417. Based on these targets, CCCS could surge 35.01% to reach the target high and rise by 8.1% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 22.27% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.37984 being high and $0.35984 being low. For CCCS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.36984. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.11 and the low estimate is $0.08. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.09.

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