Analyzing Therealreal Inc(NASDAQ: REAL) Stock as a Disaster or Opportunity

In the latest trading session, 0.52 million Therealreal Inc (NASDAQ:REAL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 3.01. With the company’s most recent per share price at $9.30 changing hands around $0.02 or 0.22% at last look, the market valuation stands at $1.02B. REAL’s current price is a discount, trading about -5.16% off its 52-week high of $9.78. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.52, which suggests the last value was 83.66% up since then. When we look at Therealreal Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.91 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.62 million.

Analysts gave the Therealreal Inc (REAL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.29. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 7 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended REAL as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Therealreal Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.04.

Therealreal Inc (NASDAQ:REAL) trade information

Instantly REAL is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action -2.21%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 362.69%, with the 5-day performance at -2.21% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Therealreal Inc (NASDAQ:REAL) is 96.20% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 16.48 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 5.79 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 4, meaning bulls need a downside of -132.5% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, REAL’s forecast low is 3.9 with 15 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -61.29% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 58.06% for it to hit the projected low.

Therealreal Inc (REAL) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Therealreal 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 193.38% over the past 6 months, a 12.64% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 2.90%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 9.12% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 6 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 162.97M. 4 analysts are of the opinion that Therealreal Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 161.4M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 143.37M and 143.8M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 13.67%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 12.24%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -10.67%. The 2024 estimates are for Therealreal Inc earnings to increase by 50.74%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 38.60% per year.

REAL Dividends

Therealreal Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January.

Therealreal Inc (NASDAQ:REAL)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 12.75% of Therealreal Inc shares while 77.22% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 88.51%. There are 77.22% institutions holding the Therealreal Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 6.5692% of the shares, roughly 6.91 million REAL shares worth $22.05 million.

WOODSON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 4.9899% or 5.25 million shares worth $16.75 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. With 2.5 shares estimated at $23.34 million under it, the former controlled 2.28% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.26% of the shares, roughly 2.48 shares worth around $23.08 million.