In last trading session, StepStone Group Inc (NASDAQ:STEP) saw 0.58 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.37. Company’s recent per share price level of $50.53 trading at $0.25 or 0.50% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $5.86B. That closing price of STEP’s stock is at a discount of -39.28% from its 52-week high price of $70.38 and is indicating a premium of 31.15% from its 52-week low price of $34.79. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.53 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 651.43K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For StepStone Group Inc (STEP), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 7 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 3 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
StepStone Group Inc (NASDAQ:STEP) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.50%, in the last five days STEP remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 04/24/25 when the stock touched $50.53 price level, adding 0.98% to its value on the day. StepStone Group Inc’s shares saw a change of -12.70% in year-to-date performance and have moved 7.37% in past 5-day. StepStone Group Inc (NASDAQ:STEP) showed a performance of -8.68% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.56 million shares which calculate 3.58 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 67 to the stock, which implies a rise of 24.58% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 67 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 67. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -32.59% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -32.59% for stock’s current value.
StepStone Group Inc (STEP) estimates and forecasts
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -13.21% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 50.28% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 23.73%.
StepStone Group Inc (NASDAQ:STEP)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 18.31% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 92.11 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 112.76%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 92.11% institutions for StepStone Group Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at STEP for having 7.95 million shares of worth $365.05 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 12.0188 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 6.33 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.5608 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $290.4 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 4.1 shares of worth $207.09 million or 5.40% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 3.27 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $165.17 million in the company or a holder of 4.31% of company’s stock.
