Chegg Inc (CHGG): Why Is Stock So Good?

In the latest trading session, 0.81 million Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.35. With the company’s most recent per share price at $2.18 changing hands around $0.13 or 6.34% at last look, the market valuation stands at $226.00M. CHGG’s current price is a discount, trading about -426.61% off its 52-week high of $11.48. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.95, which suggests the last value was 10.55% up since then. When we look at Chegg Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 5.15 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.35 million.

Analysts gave the Chegg Inc (CHGG) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.29. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 6 out of 15 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 7 recommended CHGG as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Chegg Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.08.

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Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) trade information

Instantly CHGG is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 6.34%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -80.81%, with the 5-day performance at 6.34% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) is -33.33% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 14.04 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.95 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 23, meaning bulls need an upside of 90.52% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, CHGG’s forecast low is 2 with 110 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -4945.87% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 8.26% for it to hit the projected low.

Chegg Inc (CHGG) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Chegg Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -76.02% over the past 6 months, a -25.45% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 19.60%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -11.50% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 12 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 134.13M. 12 analysts are of the opinion that Chegg Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 162.75M. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -13.40%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -20.81%. The 2024 estimates are for Chegg Inc earnings to decrease by -20.90%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 15.00% per year.

CHGG Dividends

Chegg Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Oct-28.

Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 4.32% of Chegg Inc shares while 94.91% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 99.20%. There are 94.91% institutions holding the Chegg Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-03-31, the company held 9.5382% of the shares, roughly 11.11 million CHGG shares worth $84.12 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.0236% or 10.51 million shares worth $79.58 million as of 2024-03-31.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund. With 2.82 shares estimated at $6.15 million under it, the former controlled 2.76% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund held about 2.43% of the shares, roughly 2.49 shares worth around $5.44 million.