With 1.45 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.35 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $78.1899 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $76.2. The 52-week range on FUTU shows that it touched its highest point at $127.49 and its lowest point at $42.61 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $120.27. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.75.
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 FUTU was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.20%, but this was down by -7.01% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -29.29% while six-month performance rose 14.10%. The stock gained 55.62% in the past year, while it has lost -3.20% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FUTU yields 4.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.23. For the next quarter, that number is 1.43. This implies an EPS growth rate of 23.32% for this year and 28.30% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 20.39% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 157.52%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 93.48 million FUTU shares are outstanding with a float of 87.86 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 4.98 million, which was 361.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Hua Li as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Yu Chen serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.38524 of FUTU’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, FUTU reported revenue of $3436132000.0 and operating income of $1731307000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1731307000.0 and diluted EPS was $9.44.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for FUTU since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 FUTU analysts setting a high price target of 1245.331 and a low target of 739.415, the average target price over the next 12 months is 939.0467. Based on these targets, FUTU could surge 1508.33% to reach the target high and rise by 854.95% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 1112.77% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $40.3147 being high and $34.74594 being low. For FUTU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $37.7264.
