In the last trading session, 1.09 million Canadian Solar Inc (NASDAQ:CSIQ) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.25. With the company’s per share price at $11.52 changed hands at -$0.39 or -3.27% during last session, the market valuation stood at $762.33M. CSIQ’s last price was a discount, traded about -120.75% off its 52-week high of $25.43. The share price had its 52-week low at $10.60, which suggests the last value was 7.99% up since then. When we look at Canadian Solar Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.65 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.19 million.
Analysts gave the Canadian Solar Inc (CSIQ) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.70. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 2 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended CSIQ as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Canadian Solar Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.24.
Canadian Solar Inc (NASDAQ:CSIQ) trade information
Instantly CSIQ was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -6.72%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 3.60%, with the 5-day performance at -6.72% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Canadian Solar Inc (NASDAQ:CSIQ) is -9.86% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 10.36 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.8 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 15, meaning bulls need an upside of 23.2% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, CSIQ’s forecast low is 11 with 27 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -134.38% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 4.51% for it to hit the projected low.
Canadian Solar Inc (CSIQ) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Canadian Solar 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 -24.95% over the past 6 months, a -105.94% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -13.90%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -19.38% down from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 8 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 1.66B. 6 analysts are of the opinion that Canadian Solar Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 1.66B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.7B and 1.33B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -2.64%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 24.58%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 0.83%. The 2025 estimates are for Canadian Solar Inc earnings to decrease by -96.00%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 8.00% per year.
CSIQ Dividends
Canadian Solar Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February.
MACKENZIE FINANCIAL CORP holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.7317% or 5.12 million shares worth $75.46 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Oct 31, 2024 were Invesco ETF TR II-Invesco Solar ETF and Vanguard International Stock Index-Total Intl Stock Indx . With 1.42 shares estimated at $16.34 million under it, the former controlled 2.14% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard International Stock Index-Total Intl Stock Indx held about 1.10% of the shares, roughly 724.81 shares worth around $8.35 million.
