Outbrain Inc (OB) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 0.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.43 million shares. The 52-week range on OB shows that it touched its highest point at $7.87 and its lowest point at $3.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $5.95. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.52.

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 OB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.76%, but this was up by 0.14% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -50.99% while six-month performance fell -21.12%. The stock lost -18.90% in the past year, while it has lost -51.88% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OB yields -0.74 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.78. For the next quarter, that number is 0.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of 298.53% for this year and 143.72% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 112.97% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 22.72%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 94.29 million OB shares are outstanding with a float of 29.36 million shares on hand for trading.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for OB since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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.

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 $0.06865948 being high and $0.0652781 being low. For OB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.067566.