In the last trading session, 1.76 million Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE:FOUR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.78. With the company’s per share price at $86.07 changed hands at -$1.13 or -1.30% during last session, the market valuation stood at $7.67B. FOUR’s last price was a discount, traded about -48.14% off its 52-week high of $127.50. The share price had its 52-week low at $55.87, which suggests the last value was 35.09% up since then. When we look at Shift4 Payments Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.95 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.78 million.
Analysts gave the Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.62. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 15 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended FOUR as a Hold, 15 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Shift4 Payments Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.75.
Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE:FOUR) trade information
Instantly FOUR was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -3.16%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -17.06%, with the 5-day performance at -3.16% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE:FOUR) is -29.03% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 6.6 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.96 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 110, meaning bulls need an upside of 21.75% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, FOUR’s forecast low is 100 with 126 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -46.39% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -16.18% for it to hit the projected low.
Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 26.09% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 11 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 905.37M. 11 analysts are of the opinion that Shift4 Payments Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 1.02B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 707.4M and 827M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 27.99%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 23.69%.
The 2025 estimates are for Shift4 Payments Inc earnings to increase by 17.94%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 21.98% per year.
FOUR Dividends
Shift4 Payments Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-17.
Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE:FOUR)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.84% of Shift4 Payments Inc shares while 114.48% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 116.62%. There are 114.48% institutions holding the Shift4 Payments Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 8.7712% of the shares, roughly 5.8 million FOUR shares worth $425.52 million.
DURABLE CAPITAL PARTNERS LP holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.5141% or 4.97 million shares worth $364.47 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jan 31, 2025 were iShares Core S&P Midcap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 2.24 shares estimated at $192.87 million under it, the former controlled 3.31% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 3.18% of the shares, roughly 2.16 shares worth around $185.75 million.
