Is StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ: STNE) the next life-changing stock to watch out for?

In the latest trading session, 0.31 million StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.22. With the company’s most recent per share price at $9.59 changing hands around $0.13 or 1.32% at last look, the market valuation stands at $2.86B. STNE’s current price is a discount, trading about -102.92% off its 52-week high of $19.46. The share price had its 52-week low at $9.06, which suggests the last value was 5.53% up since then. When we look at StoneCo Ltd’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 7.94 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.61 million.

Analysts gave the StoneCo Ltd (STNE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.88. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 9 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended STNE as a Hold, 7 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. StoneCo Ltd’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 1.93.

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StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) trade information

Instantly STNE is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action -10.42%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -46.84%, with the 5-day performance at -10.42% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) is -15.48% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 17.19 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.32 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 17, meaning bulls need an upside of 43.59% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, STNE’s forecast low is 17 with 17 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -77.27% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -77.27% for it to hit the projected low.

StoneCo Ltd (STNE) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the StoneCo Ltd 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 -27.50% over the past 6 months, a 25.77% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 24.90%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 10.17% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 4 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 3.58B. 3 analysts are of the opinion that StoneCo Ltd’s revenue for the current quarter will be 3.58B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 3.25B and 3.08B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 10.31%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 16.08%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 23.53%. The 2024 estimates are for StoneCo Ltd earnings to increase by 41.07%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 22.00% per year.

STNE Dividends

StoneCo Ltd is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January.

StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE)’s Major holders

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.4206% or 19.85 million shares worth $237.97 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Aug 31, 2024 were iShares Russell 2000 ETF and Fidelity Small Cap Index Fund. With 7.78 shares estimated at $73.85 million under it, the former controlled 2.65% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Fidelity Small Cap Index Fund held about 1.00% of the shares, roughly 2.93 shares worth around $27.85 million.