With 4.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.35 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $49.34 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $46.63. The 52-week range on UPST shows that it touched its highest point at $96.43 and its lowest point at $20.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $70.79. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.38.
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 UPST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 21.01%, but this was down by -2.04% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -26.01% while six-month performance fell -3.32%. The stock gained 108.04% in the past year, while it has lost -21.88% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UPST yields -1.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.20. For the next quarter, that number is 0.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of 791.99% for this year and 59.22% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 93.47 million UPST shares are outstanding with a float of 82.46 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 23.22 million, which was 2442.0 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. David J. Girouard as the firm’s Co-Founder, President, CEO & Chairperson of the Board, Mr. Paul Gu serves as its Co-Founder, CTO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.62976 of UPST’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UPST since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 4 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 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 UPST analysts setting a high price target of 110.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 73.92308. Based on these targets, UPST could surge 128.69% to reach the target high and fall by -68.81% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 53.69% 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 -$0.44145 being high and -$0.47886 being low. For UPST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.47138. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.36 and the low estimate is $0.04. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.25.
