Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Talen Energy Corp (TLN)

With 1.0 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.16 million shares. During the session, the Utilities – Independent Power Producers company that operates in wider Utilities sector, reached to the highest price of $204.3499 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $197.16. The 52-week range on TLN shows that it touched its highest point at $217.79 and its lowest point at $53.03 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $237.22. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.13.

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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 TLN was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.94%, but this was up by 16.75% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 45.61% while six-month performance rose 85.65%. The stock gained 272.89% in the past year, while it has gained 213.17% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TLN yields 18.68 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.86. For the next quarter, that number is 0.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of 529.24% for this year and -51.76% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 59.03 million TLN shares are outstanding with a float of 49.93 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 2.53 million, which was 496.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Mark Allen McFarland as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Terry L. Nutt serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.99742997 of TLN’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, TLN reported revenue of $413000000.0 and operating income of -$63000000.0. Over the past year, revenue came in at $4.23B while operating income stood at $646.00M. It generated $454000000.0 net income for the quarter, which came to $174.00M over the last twelve months. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $56000000.0 and diluted EPS was $7.6. EBITDA for the full year was $1.01B.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With TLN analysts setting a high price target of 269.0 and a low target of 202.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 237.22221. Based on these targets, TLN could surge 34.21% to reach the target high and rise by 0.78% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.36% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $16.80114 being high and $12.84337 being low. For TLN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $14.22083. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was -$1.13. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.53 and the low estimate is $0.53. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.53.