In the latest trading session, 0.86 million Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.84. With the company’s most recent per share price at $94.19 changed hands at -$2.4 or -2.49% at last look, the market valuation stands at $121.96B. SHOP’s current price is a discount, trading about -37.36% off its 52-week high of $129.38. The share price had its 52-week low at $48.56, which suggests the last value was 48.44% up since then. When we look at Shopify Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 10.93 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 8.03 million.
Analysts gave the Shopify Inc (SHOP) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.96. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 34 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 13 recommended SHOP as a Hold, 21 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Shopify Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.26.
Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP) trade information
Instantly SHOP was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action 1.33%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -11.42%, with the 5-day performance at 1.33% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP) is -26.62% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 15.89 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.64 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 110, meaning bulls need an upside of 14.37% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, SHOP’s forecast low is 80 with 130 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -38.02% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 15.07% for it to hit the projected low.
Shopify Inc (SHOP) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 23.03% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 39 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 2.33B. 37 analysts are of the opinion that Shopify Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 2.54B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.86B and 2.04B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 25.35%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 24.05%.
Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.18% of Shopify Inc shares while 72.08% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 72.21%. There are 72.08% institutions holding the Shopify Inc stock share, with BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 4.2854% of the shares, roughly 55.24 million SHOP shares worth $3.65 billion.
CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 3.7788% or 48.71 million shares worth $3.22 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Growth Fund of America Inc and Europacific Growth Fund. With 30.28 shares estimated at $2.85 billion under it, the former controlled 2.49% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Europacific Growth Fund held about 1.43% of the shares, roughly 17.44 shares worth around $1.64 billion.
