During the recent session, Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA)’s traded shares were 1.85 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.22. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $11.80, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.98% or $0.12. The 52-week high for the PARA share is $13.40, that puts it down -13.56 from that peak though still a striking 19.15% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $9.54. The company’s market capitalization is $8.36B, and the average trade volume was 9.06 million shares over the past three months.
Paramount Global (PARA) received a consensus recommendation of Sell from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.30. PARA has a Sell rating from 6 analyst(s) out of 16 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 5 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) trade information
Paramount Global (PARA) registered a 0.98% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.98% in intraday trading to $11.80, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 3.19%, and it has moved by 5.88% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -8.49%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $11, which implies a decrease of -7.27% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $10 and $12 respectively. As a result, PARA is trading at a discount of -1.69% off the target high and 15.25% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return -13.97% in 2025, the next five years will return -2.58% per annum.
PARA Dividends
Paramount Global is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Paramount Global is 0.20, with the dividend yield indicating at 1.70 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
The next largest institutional holding, with 58.04 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.7021% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $603.07 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Paramount Global (PARA) shares are SELECT SECTOR SPDR TRT-The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR F and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that SELECT SECTOR SPDR TRT-The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR F owns about 26.93 shares. This amounts to just over 4.27 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $318.45 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 17.15, or about 2.72% of the stock, which is worth about $202.8 million.
