Holdings of Pure Storage Inc (PSTG) are aligned with the stars

With 1.18 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.07 million shares. During the session, the Computer Hardware company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $64.75 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $63.71. The 52-week range on PSTG shows that it touched its highest point at $70.41 and its lowest point at $34.32 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $73.53. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.10.

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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 PSTG was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.38%, but this was up by 25.53% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 28.62% while six-month performance rose 3.41%. The stock gained 80.74% in the past year, while it has gained 81.86% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PSTG yields 0.38 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.75. For the next quarter, that number is 0.41. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.76% for this year and 5.00% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 327.13 million PSTG shares are outstanding with a float of 308.69 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 9.26 million, which was 282.99998 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Charles H. Giancarlo as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. John Colgrove serves as its Founder, Chief Visionary Officer & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.84512 of PSTG’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 2024-08-04, PSTG reported revenue of $831072000.0 and operating income of $59687000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $107628000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.19.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PSTG since 17 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 11 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 2 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 PSTG analysts setting a high price target of 93.0 and a low target of 47.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 71.78333. Based on these targets, PSTG could surge 43.63% to reach the target high and fall by -27.41% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.86% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.40122 being high and $1.31178 being low. For PSTG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.36147. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.4 and the low estimate is $0.21. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.3.