With 14.91 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 7.71 million shares. The 52-week range on XYZ shows that it touched its highest point at $99.26 and its lowest point at $55.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $95.67. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.77.
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 XYZ was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.43%, but this was down by -34.56% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -33.06% while six-month performance fell -10.52%. The stock lost -25.22% in the past year, while it has lost -30.07% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for XYZ yields 4.55 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.55. For the next quarter, that number is 0.98. This implies an EPS growth rate of 33.08% for this year and 23.76% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 26.13% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 41.45%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 559.61 million XYZ shares are outstanding with a float of 544.76 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
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 $3.7069 being high and $3.24863 being low. For XYZ, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.55414. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.38 and the low estimate is $0.75. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.08.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded XYZ stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
