PowerSchool Holdings Inc (PWSC): Why Is Stock So Good?

In the latest trading session, 0.87 million PowerSchool Holdings Inc (NYSE:PWSC) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.05. With the company’s most recent per share price at $22.74 changing hands around $0.0 or 0.00% at last look, the market valuation stands at $3.79B. PWSC’s current price is a discount, trading about -10.64% off its 52-week high of $25.16. The share price had its 52-week low at $16.15, which suggests the last value was 28.98% up since then. When we look at PowerSchool Holdings Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.36 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.75 million.

Analysts gave the PowerSchool Holdings Inc (PWSC) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 8 recommended PWSC as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. PowerSchool Holdings Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.26.

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PowerSchool Holdings Inc (NYSE:PWSC) trade information

The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -3.48%, with the 5-day performance at 0.13% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, PowerSchool Holdings Inc (NYSE:PWSC) is 0.75% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.03 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 5.59 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 22.8, meaning bulls need an upside of 0.26% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, PWSC’s forecast low is 22.8 with 26 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -14.34% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -0.26% for it to hit the projected low.

PowerSchool Holdings Inc (PWSC) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the PowerSchool Holdings Inc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 9.48% over the past 6 months, a 9.76% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 6.90%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 13.10% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 9 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 203.8M. 9 analysts are of the opinion that PowerSchool Holdings Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 205.55M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 182.16M and 182.14M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 11.90%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 12.90%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 19.55%. The 2024 estimates are for PowerSchool Holdings Inc earnings to increase by 11.85%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 13.40% per year.

PWSC Dividends

PowerSchool Holdings Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Aug-09.

PowerSchool Holdings Inc (NYSE:PWSC)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.60% of PowerSchool Holdings Inc shares while 102.60% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 103.21%. There are 102.60% institutions holding the PowerSchool Holdings Inc stock share, with VISTA EQUITY PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 43.0922% of the shares, roughly 71.12 million PWSC shares worth $1.59 billion.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 4.2792% or 7.06 million shares worth $158.12 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jun 30, 2024 were Investment Managers Ser Tr II-First Trust Merger Arbitrage Fd and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. With 1.85 shares estimated at $42.14 million under it, the former controlled 0.91% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 0.91% of the shares, roughly 1.87 shares worth around $42.43 million.