Boom Or Bust: What Are StoneCo Ltd’s (NASDAQ:STNE) Future Prospects?

StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE)’s traded shares stood at 0.53 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.98. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $13.93, to imply an increase of 0.25% or $0.04 in intraday trading. The STNE share’s 52-week high remains $17.09, putting it -22.68% down since that peak but still an impressive 44.58% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $7.72. The company has a valuation of $3.78B, with an average of 5.29 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 6.86 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for StoneCo Ltd (STNE), translating to a mean rating of 1.80. Of 9 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give STNE a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 2 advise Hold as 7 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 1.83.

StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) trade information

After registering a 0.25% upside in the latest session, StoneCo Ltd (STNE) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 1.27%, and 29.78% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 74.72%. Short interest in StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) saw shorts transact 33.41 million shares and set a 4.38 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $5.7 and $12 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, STNE has been trading 13.85% off suggested target high and 59.08% from its likely low.

StoneCo Ltd (STNE) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 18.75% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 7 analysts is 3.65B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 3 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 3.9B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 3.08B and 3.21B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 18.38% before jumping 21.57% in the following quarter.

STNE Dividends

StoneCo Ltd has its next earnings report out on 2025-Mar-17. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE)’s Major holders

StoneCo Ltd insiders hold 5.20% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 85.31% of the shares at 89.99% float percentage. In total, 85.31% institutions holds shares in the company, led by MADRONE ADVISORS, LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 25.34 million shares (or 8.2316% of shares), all amounting to roughly $303.82 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 19.85 million shares, or about 6.4475% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $237.97 million.

We also have iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF and Fidelity Salem Street Trust-Fidelity Small Cap Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the StoneCo Ltd (STNE) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF holds roughly 7.56 shares. This is just over 2.81% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $104.64 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 2.85, or 1.06% of the shares, all valued at about 39.43 million.