This trade activity should not be overlooked: Penguin Solutions Inc (PENG)

With 0.85 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.95 million shares. During the session, the Information Technology Services company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $20.23 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $19.54. The 52-week range on PENG shows that it touched its highest point at $29.81 and its lowest point at $14.87 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $25.43. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.67.

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 PENG was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.86%, but this was up by 0.36% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -4.22% while six-month performance fell -17.65%. The stock gained 11.85% in the past year, while it has gained 2.81% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PENG yields -0.00 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.08. For the next quarter, that number is 0.39. This implies an EPS growth rate of 31.89% for this year and 26.47% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 53.28 million PENG shares are outstanding with a float of 45.31 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 8.55 million, which was 1603.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Mark W. Adams as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Nate Olmstead serves as its Senior VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.08309 of PENG’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 2024-08-30, PENG reported revenue of $311148000.0 and operating income of $8791000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $25324000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With PENG analysts setting a high price target of 30.0 and a low target of 22.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 25.42857. Based on these targets, PENG could surge 52.05% to reach the target high and rise by 11.51% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.88% from current levels.