In the last trading session, 25.13 million Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.91. With the company’s per share price at $8.73 changed hands at -$0.26 or -2.89% during last session, the market valuation stood at $14.81B. SNAP’s last price was a discount, traded about -98.51% off its 52-week high of $17.33. The share price had its 52-week low at $8.29, which suggests the last value was 5.04% up since then. When we look at Snap Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 26.58 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 28.57 million.
Analysts gave the Snap Inc (SNAP) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.76. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 28 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 13 recommended SNAP as a Hold, 15 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Snap Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.04.
Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) trade information
Instantly SNAP was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -1.47%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -18.94%, with the 5-day performance at -1.47% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) is -19.54% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 62.06 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.1 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 13.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 35.33% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, SNAP’s forecast low is 9 with 16 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -83.28% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -3.09% for it to hit the projected low.
Snap Inc (SNAP) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 13.64% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 34 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 1.35B. 33 analysts are of the opinion that Snap Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 1.41B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.19B and 1.24B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 12.85%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 14.24%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 10.96%. The 2025 estimates are for Snap Inc earnings to increase by 20.28%.
SNAP Dividends
Snap Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-03.
Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 24.01% of Snap Inc shares while 59.20% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 77.91%. There are 59.20% institutions holding the Snap Inc stock share, with FMR LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.551% of the shares, roughly 206.76 million SNAP shares worth $3.43 billion.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.0007% or 98.86 million shares worth $1.64 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Growth Fund of America Inc and Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund . With 88.8 shares estimated at $775.22 million under it, the former controlled 6.16% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund held about 5.87% of the shares, roughly 84.72 shares worth around $739.58 million.
