Adversity is less terrifying than hope: Toast Inc (TOST)

With 3.57 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 7.14 million shares. During the session, the Software – Infrastructure company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $37.525 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $36.67. The 52-week range on TOST shows that it touched its highest point at $44.12 and its lowest point at $16.13 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $40.54. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.97.

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 TOST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.09%, but this was down by -4.12% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 29.20% while six-month performance rose 55.95%. The stock gained 99.62% in the past year, while it has gained 2.09% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TOST yields -0.13 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.79. For the next quarter, that number is 0.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of 533.64% for this year and 36.66% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -14.83% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -2.90%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 468.00 million TOST shares are outstanding with a float of 410.40 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 32.04 million, which was 563.99997 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Aman Narang as the firm’s Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Mr. Stephen Fredette serves as its Co-Founder, President & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.88377 of TOST’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, TOST reported revenue of $1305000000.0 and operating income of $34000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $47000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.07.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for TOST since 14 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 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 TOST analysts setting a high price target of 50.0 and a low target of 25.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 39.46923. Based on these targets, TOST could surge 34.37% to reach the target high and fall by -32.81% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 6.07% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.1529 being high and -$0.19215 being low. For TOST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.57645.