In today’s recent session, 4.51 million shares of the QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS) have been traded, and its beta is 4.45. Most recently the company’s share price was $4.86, and it changed around $0.1 or 2.00% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2.49B. QS at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $9.52, offering almost -95.88% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $4.65, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 4.32% since then. We note from QuantumScape Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 11.7 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 15.34 million.
QuantumScape Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 3.20. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 7 recommended QS as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. QuantumScape Corp is expected to report earnings per share of -0.21 for the current quarter.
QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS) trade information
Instantly QS has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 2.00% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 5.15 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 5.63%. The company’s shares are currently down -6.45% year-to-date, but still down -2.71% over the last five days. On the other hand, QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS) is -9.93% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 65.68 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.98 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $5.3, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 8.3% from its current value. Analyst projections state that QS is forecast to be at a low of $5.3 and a high of $5.3.
QuantumScape Corp (QS) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -45.65%. QuantumScape Corp earnings are expected to increase by -2.19% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 3.43% per year for the next five years.
QS Dividends
QuantumScape Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March.
QuantumScape Corp (NYSE:QS)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 18.00% of QuantumScape Corp shares, and 31.47% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 38.38%. QuantumScape Corp stock is held by 454.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 6.2906% of the shares, which is about 31.21 million shares worth $153.56 million.
BLACKROCK INC., with 3.1671% or 15.71 million shares worth $77.31 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Sep 30, 2024. The former held 10.44 shares worth $50.42 million, making up 2.28% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund held roughly 8.49 shares worth around $41.0 million, which represents about 1.85% of the total shares outstanding.
