In the last trading session, 3.88 million PagSeguro Digital Ltd (NYSE:PAGS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.83. With the company’s per share price at $7.89 changed hands at -$0.43 or -5.17% during last session, the market valuation stood at $2.60B. PAGS’s last price was a discount, traded about -87.83% off its 52-week high of $14.82. The share price had its 52-week low at $6.11, which suggests the last value was 22.56% up since then. When we look at PagSeguro Digital Ltd’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 4.04 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.57 million.
Analysts gave the PagSeguro Digital Ltd (PAGS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.24. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 14 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended PAGS as a Hold, 10 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. PagSeguro Digital Ltd’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 1.7.
PagSeguro Digital Ltd (NYSE:PAGS) trade information
Instantly PAGS was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 7.93%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 26.04%, with the 5-day performance at 7.93% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, PagSeguro Digital Ltd (NYSE:PAGS) is -1.87% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 16.63 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.47 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 13, meaning bulls need an upside of 39.31% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, PAGS’s forecast low is 13 with 13 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -64.77% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -64.77% for it to hit the projected low.
PagSeguro Digital Ltd (PAGS) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 12.57% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 3 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 4.82B. 3 analysts are of the opinion that PagSeguro Digital Ltd’s revenue for the current quarter will be 5.12B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 4.31B and 4.56B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 11.86%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 12.28%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 3.32%. The 2025 estimates are for PagSeguro Digital Ltd earnings to increase by 4.87%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 7.14% per year.
PAGS Dividends
PagSeguro Digital Ltd is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-19.
PagSeguro Digital Ltd (NYSE:PAGS)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.42% of PagSeguro Digital Ltd shares while 82.58% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 82.93%. There are 82.58% institutions holding the PagSeguro Digital Ltd stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 6.7897% of the shares, roughly 21.52 million PAGS shares worth $251.56 million.
FMR LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.2545% or 19.82 million shares worth $231.73 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Smallcap World Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 5.24 shares estimated at $41.36 million under it, the former controlled 2.51% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.50% of the shares, roughly 5.23 shares worth around $41.25 million.
