In today’s recent session, 12.49 million shares of the Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) have been traded, and its beta is 2.03. Most recently the company’s share price was $1.56, and it changed around $0.03 or 1.92% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $1.52B. PLUG at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $4.90, offering almost -214.1% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $1.37, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 12.18% since then. We note from Plug Power Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 63.77 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 65.62 million.
Plug Power Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.86. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 3 out of 27 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 15 recommended PLUG as a Hold, whereas 5 deemed it a Buy, and 2 rated it as Underweight.
Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) trade information
Instantly PLUG has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 1.92% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 1.7200 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 9.3%. The company’s shares are currently down -26.79% year-to-date, but still down -8.28% over the last five days. On the other hand, Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) is -6.07% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 282.44 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.88 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $1.7, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 8.24% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PLUG is forecast to be at a low of $1.1 and a high of $2.5.
Plug Power Inc (PLUG) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -49.35%. Plug Power Inc earnings are expected to increase by 76.01% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 50.65% per year for the next five years.
Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 6.42% of Plug Power Inc shares, and 49.79% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 53.21%. Plug Power Inc stock is held by 610.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 10.9108% of the shares, which is about 69.97 million shares worth $163.02 million.
BLACKROCK INC., with 9.7236% or 62.35 million shares worth $145.28 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 Dec 31, 2024. The former held 29.54 shares worth $46.68 million, making up 3.19% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund held roughly 23.21 shares worth around $36.67 million, which represents about 2.51% of the total shares outstanding.
