Copart, Inc Is A Buy Small Cap Stock: Analysts

Copart, Inc (NASDAQ:CPRT) has a beta value of 1.10 and has seen 1.02 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $46.67B, closed the recent trade at $48.27 per share which meant it gained $0.55 on the day or 1.15%% during that session. The CPRT stock price is -33.37% off its 52-week high price of $64.38 and 1.95% above the 52-week low of $47.33. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 8.98 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 6.48 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Copart, Inc (CPRT) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 0 out of 3 have rated it as a Hold, with 2 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.36.

Copart, Inc (NASDAQ:CPRT) trade information

Sporting 1.15%% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the CPRT stock price touched $48.27 or saw a rise of 1.79%. Year-to-date, Copart, Inc shares have moved -10.63%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -0.25%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Copart, Inc (NASDAQ:CPRT) have changed -20.43%. Short interest in the company has seen 17.79 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.76.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $30.25, which means that the shares’ value could drop -59.57% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $18.5 while the price target rests at a high of $63.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -30.52% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 61.67% from the levels at last check today..

Copart, Inc (CPRT) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -18.14% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 10.52%.

6 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.14B for the current quarter. 4 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.23B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.07B and 1.15B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 6.26% for the current quarter and 10.52% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 17.85% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 10.45% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 10.20%.

CPRT Dividends

Copart, Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-May-22 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

Copart, Inc (NASDAQ:CPRT)’s Major holders

Insiders own 8.65% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 87.41% with a share float percentage of 95.69%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Copart, Inc having a total of 1653.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 100.64 million shares worth more than $5.45 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 10.2975% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 69.18 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $3.75 billion and represent 7.079% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Principal Funds, Inc-MidCap Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.84% shares in the company for having 27.43 shares of worth $1.33 billion while later fund manager owns 24.51 shares of worth $1.19 billion as of Apr 30, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.53% of company’s outstanding stock.

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