Adversity is less terrifying than hope: Under Armour Inc (UA)

With 3.21 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.42 million shares. During the session, the Apparel Manufacturing company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $8.195 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.845. The 52-week range on UA shows that it touched its highest point at $8.99 and its lowest point at $6.02 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.31. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.66.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of UA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.49%, but this was up by 1.87% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 30.30% while six-month performance rose 24.54%. The stock gained 19.79% in the past year, while it has lost -2.16% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UA yields -0.20 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.36. For the next quarter, that number is 0.19. This implies an EPS growth rate of -59.36% for this year and 62.23% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 212.71 million UA shares are outstanding with a float of 123.31 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 8.87 million, which was 204.99999 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Kevin A. Plank as the firm’s Founder, President, CEO & Director, Mr. David E. Bergman serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.68553 of UA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, UA reported revenue of $1183665000.0 and operating income of -$274642000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$216726000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.7.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UA since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With UA analysts setting a high price target of 9.2 and a low target of 9.2, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.2. Based on these targets, UA could surge 12.61% to reach the target high and rise by 12.61% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.61% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.54871 being high and $0.50567 being low. For UA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.52719. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.07. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.07 and the low estimate is -$0.01. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.03.