An analyst sees good growth prospects for Paycor HCM Inc (PYCR)

With 0.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.9 million shares. During the session, the Software – Application company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $17.66 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.35. The 52-week range on PYCR shows that it touched its highest point at $22.65 and its lowest point at $10.92 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.31. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.48.

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 PYCR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.73%, but this was up by 27.13% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 26.39% while six-month performance rose 21.39%. The stock lost -10.86% in the past year, while it has lost -19.04% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PYCR yields -0.26 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.63. For the next quarter, that number is 0.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.27% for this year and 12.62% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.20% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 11.00%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 178.21 million PYCR shares are outstanding with a float of 81.50 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 7.3 million, which was 405.99998 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Raul Villar Jr. as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Adam Brooks Ante serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.95232004 of PYCR’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, PYCR reported revenue of $167476000.0 and operating income of -$14254000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $23208000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.04.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PYCR since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 PYCR analysts setting a high price target of 30.0 and a low target of 15.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 20.1875. Based on these targets, PYCR could surge 71.62% to reach the target high and fall by -14.19% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 15.49% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.49533 being high and $0.47263 being low. For PYCR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.48269. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.09. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.23 and the low estimate is $0.2. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.22.