PLBY Group Inc (NASDAQ: PLBY) Gain Of 73.06% Compared To 52-Week Low; YTD Rise 32.19% – What Should You Do Now?

PLBY Group Inc (NASDAQ:PLBY)’s traded shares stood at 1.3 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 2.22. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.93, to imply a decrease of -3.50% or -$0.07 in intraday trading. The PLBY share’s 52-week high remains $2.44, putting it -26.42% down since that peak but still an impressive 73.06% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $0.52. The company has a valuation of $180.91M, with an average of 1.33 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 865.13K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for PLBY Group Inc (PLBY), translating to a mean rating of 2.00. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give PLBY a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 3 recommend it as a Buy. 1 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.11.

PLBY Group Inc (NASDAQ:PLBY) trade information

After registering a -3.50% downside in the last session, PLBY Group Inc (PLBY) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 12.87%, and 31.29% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 32.19%. Short interest in PLBY Group Inc (NASDAQ:PLBY) saw shorts transact 2.09 million shares and set a 2.85 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $0.9 and $0.9 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, PLBY has been trading 53.37% off suggested target high and 53.37% from its likely low.

PLBY Group Inc (PLBY) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing PLBY Group Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. PLBY Group Inc (PLBY) shares are 162.51% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 61.15% against 1.80%. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -44.42% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 2 analysts is 13.4M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 1 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 30.5M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 39.36M and 28.32M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -65.96% before jumping 7.70% in the following quarter.

PLBY Dividends

PLBY Group Inc has its next earnings report out in March. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

PLBY Group Inc (NASDAQ:PLBY)’s Major holders

PLBY Group Inc insiders hold 20.13% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 27.73% of the shares at 34.71% float percentage. In total, 27.73% institutions holds shares in the company, led by FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 2.58 million shares (or 3.5516% of shares), all amounting to roughly $2.01 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 2.41 million shares, or about 3.3201% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $1.88 million.

We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the PLBY Group Inc (PLBY) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 30, 2024 , Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 1.58 shares. This is just over 1.69% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $3.05 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 781.21, or 0.83% of the shares, all valued at about 1.51 million.