Analyzing Sezzle Inc(NASDAQ: SEZL) Stock as a Disaster or Opportunity

In the last trading session, 1.15 million Sezzle Inc (NASDAQ:SEZL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 7.09. With the company’s per share price at $30.42 changed hands at -$0.14 or -0.46% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.03B. SEZL’s last price was a discount, traded about -161.64% off its 52-week high of $79.59. The share price had its 52-week low at $6.73, which suggests the last value was 77.88% up since then. When we look at Sezzle Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.92 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 947.53K.

Analysts gave the Sezzle Inc (SEZL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended SEZL as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Sezzle Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.32.

Sezzle Inc (NASDAQ:SEZL) trade information

Instantly SEZL was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -16.29%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -28.65%, with the 5-day performance at -16.29% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Sezzle Inc (NASDAQ:SEZL) is -10.58% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 2.66 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.15 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 360, meaning bulls need an upside of 91.55% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, SEZL’s forecast low is 360 with 360 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -1083.43% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -1083.43% for it to hit the projected low.

Sezzle Inc (SEZL) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 30.40% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 2 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 64.75M. 2 analysts are of the opinion that Sezzle Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 75.85M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 46.98M and 55.97M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 37.83%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 35.52%.

The 2025 estimates are for Sezzle Inc earnings to increase by 19.85%.

SEZL Dividends

Sezzle Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-24.

Sezzle Inc (NASDAQ:SEZL)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 57.39% of Sezzle Inc shares while 22.85% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 53.61%. There are 22.85% institutions holding the Sezzle Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 3.0285% of the shares, roughly 0.17 million SEZL shares worth $15.12 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 2.3111% or 0.13 million shares worth $11.54 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 582.0 shares estimated at $17.7 million under it, the former controlled 10.31% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 6.57% of the shares, roughly 370.88 shares worth around $11.28 million.