Why Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ: PLYA) Stock Shouldn’t Be Ignored In 2025

In today’s recent session, 3.32 million shares of the Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ:PLYA) have been traded, and its beta is 1.46. Most recently the company’s share price was $13.26, and it changed around $0.02 or 0.14% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $1.61B. PLYA at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $13.27, offering almost -0.08% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $6.95, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 47.59% since then. We note from Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 7.38 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.23 million.

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 2.14. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 3 recommended PLYA as a Hold, whereas 3 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V is expected to report earnings per share of 0.04 for the current quarter.

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ:PLYA) trade information

Instantly PLYA has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 0.14% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 13.27 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.08%. The company’s shares are currently up 4.81% year-to-date, but still up 2.93% over the last five days. On the other hand, Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ:PLYA) is 6.92% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 4.25 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.44 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $11.5, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -15.3% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PLYA is forecast to be at a low of $8 and a high of $13.

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (PLYA) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -5.87%, down from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 4 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 212.26M in revenue for the current quarter. 4 analysts expect Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V to make 273.37M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 242.52M and 300.63M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -12.48%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -9.07%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 18.54%. Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V earnings are expected to increase by 29.09% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 22.20% per year for the next five years.

PLYA Dividends

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March.

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ:PLYA)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 30.48% of Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V shares, and 81.34% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 117.01%. Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V stock is held by 174.0 institutions, with HG VORA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.1473% of the shares, which is about 12.5 million shares worth $104.88 million.

DAVIDSON KEMPNER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP, with 8.9589% or 12.24 million shares worth $102.59 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF and DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Series were the top two Mutual Funds as of Nov 30, 2024 . The former held 2.47 shares worth $32.75 million, making up 2.03% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Series held roughly 1.79 shares worth around $23.81 million, which represents about 1.48% of the total shares outstanding.