There is no way PJT Partners Inc (PJT) can keep these numbers up

With 0.17 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.23 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $160.2 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $158.34. The 52-week range on PJT shows that it touched its highest point at $168.92 and its lowest point at $88.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $153.00. With its current market cap of 6.24 billion, PJT has annualized dividend of $1.00 while the current yield stands at 0.63%. PJT paid its most recent dividend on 1733270400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1733270400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.67.

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 PJT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.90%, but this was down by -2.96% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.41% while six-month performance rose 34.18%. The stock gained 64.62% in the past year, while it has gained 0.85% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PJT yields 4.06 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.43. For the next quarter, that number is 1.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of 29.32% for this year and 28.52% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 23.72 million PJT shares are outstanding with a float of 21.95 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.75 million, which was 739.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Paul Jeffrey Taubman B.S., M.B.A. as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Ms. Ji-Yeun Lee serves as its Managing Partner.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.86697996 of PJT’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, PJT reported revenue of $326322000.0 and operating income of $59497000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $66425000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.79.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PJT since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 PJT analysts setting a high price target of 175.0 and a low target of 129.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 153.75. Based on these targets, PJT could surge 9.96% to reach the target high and fall by -18.94% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -3.39% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.39368 being high and $4.15455 being low. For PJT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.22884. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.39 and the low estimate is $0.81. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.08.