Backblaze Inc (BLZE) Performance and Fundamentals Dashboard tells a completely different story

With 0.88 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.24 million shares. During the session, the Software – Infrastructure company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $7.0499 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $6.2. The 52-week range on BLZE shows that it touched its highest point at $12.65 and its lowest point at $4.91 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.67. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.

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 BLZE was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.10%, but this was down by -0.57% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 10.73% while six-month performance fell -3.97%. The stock gained 26.03% in the past year, while it has lost -7.51% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BLZE yields -1.11 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.19. For the next quarter, that number is -0.09. This implies an EPS growth rate of 48.34% for this year and 56.02% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 39.15 million BLZE shares are outstanding with a float of 29.01 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 1.28 million, which was 298.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Gleb Budman as the firm’s Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Ms. Tina Cessna serves as its Senior Vice President of Engineering.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.36144 of BLZE’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 2024-09-30, BLZE reported revenue of $31285000.0 and operating income of -$9809000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$2721000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.25.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BLZE since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 BLZE analysts setting a high price target of 18.0 and a low target of 10.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 13.39. Based on these targets, BLZE could surge 156.41% to reach the target high and rise by 42.45% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 90.74% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.39922 being high and -$0.4591 being low. For BLZE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.43914. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was -$0.27. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.21 and the low estimate is -$0.23. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.22.