Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ: RXT)’s 6.30% Gain This Week Just Tells Us Something New

During the last session, Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ:RXT)’s traded shares were 0.45 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.97. The 52-week high for the RXT share is $3.18, that puts it down -17.78 from that peak though still a striking 57.41% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $1.15. The company’s market capitalization is $610.28M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.52 million shares, and the average trade volume was 982.07K shares over the past three months.

Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.17. RXT has a Sell rating from 3 analyst(s) out of 8 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 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 -0.07.

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Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ:RXT) trade information

The stock’s 5-day price performance is 6.30%, and it has moved by 6.72% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 65.64%. The short interest in Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ:RXT) is 5.79 million shares and it means that shorts have 9.5 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $2.75, which implies an increase of 1.82% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $1.8 and $5 respectively. As a result, RXT is trading at a discount of -85.19% off the target high and 33.33% off the low.

Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Rackspace Technology Inc has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT) shares have gone up 61.68% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -113.33% against 17.60. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to shrink -75.00% this quarter and then drop -66.70% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -7.90% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 675.14M as predicted by 5 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 4 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 671.07M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 732.4M and 719.7M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -7.80% and then drop by -6.80% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -11.03%. While earnings are projected to return -109.07% in 2024.

RXT Dividends

Rackspace Technology Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2024-Nov-05. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ:RXT)’s Major holders

Rackspace Technology Inc insiders own 2.88% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 87.38%, with the float percentage being 89.97%. APOLLO MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS, L.P. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 124.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 129.61 million shares (or 58.9668% of all shares), a total value of $386.23 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 7.85 million shares, is of LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC’s that is approximately 3.5713% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $23.39 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT) shares are iShares Russell 2000 ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Aug 31, 2024 indicates that iShares Russell 2000 ETF owns about 1.84 shares. This amounts to just over 0.82 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $4.98 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.69, or about 0.75% of the stock, which is worth about $4.57 million.