During the recent session, Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP)’s traded shares were 2.92 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.19. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $10.05, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.76% or $0.27. The 52-week high for the SNAP share is $16.55, that puts it down -64.68 from that peak though still a striking 27.06% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $7.33. The company’s market capitalization is $15.62B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 20.87 million shares, and the average trade volume was 29.49 million shares over the past three months.

Snap Inc. (SNAP) received a consensus recommendation of a Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.90. SNAP has a Sell rating from 3 analyst(s) out of 39 analysts who have looked at this stock. 29 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 3 suggest Overweight, and 4 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -$0.04.

Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) trade information

Snap Inc. (SNAP) registered a 2.76% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.76% in intraday trading to $10.05 this Thursday, 05/25/23, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 3.40%, and it has moved by -4.29% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -29.03%. The short interest in Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) is 60.66 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.75 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $9.19, which implies a decrease of -9.36% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $6.00 and $16.00 respectively. As a result, SNAP is trading at a discount of -59.2% off the target high and 40.3% off the low.

Snap Inc. (SNAP) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Snap Inc. has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Snap Inc. (SNAP) shares have gone down -2.62% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -76.47% against 16.00. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2023. Revenue is predicted to shrink -100.00% this quarter and then drop -112.50% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -1.60% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $1.05 billion as predicted by 29 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 29 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to $1.12 billion by the end of Sep 2023. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled $1.11 billion and $1.14 billion respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -5.60% and then drop by -1.10% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 21.40%. While earnings are projected to return -184.00% in 2023, the next five years will return 40.92% per annum.

SNAP Dividends

Snap Inc. is due to release its next quarterly earnings between July 19 and July 24. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP)’s Major holders

Snap Inc. insiders own 9.39% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 53.06%, with the float percentage being 58.56%. FMR, LLC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 840 institutions own stock in it. As of Mar 30, 2023, the company held over 137.64 million shares (or 10.21% of all shares), a total value of $1.38 billion in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 88.47 million shares, is of Vanguard Group, Inc. (The)’s that is approximately 6.56% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Mar 30, 2023, these shares were valued at $889.38 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Snap Inc. (SNAP) shares are Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. Data provided on Feb 27, 2023 indicates that Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund owns about 53.23 million shares. This amounts to just over 4.01 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $535.15 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 30.93 million, or about 2.33% of the stock, which is worth about $310.93 million.