Nu Holdings Ltd (NU) Clearly Signals Buy-Into the Stock: Don’t ignore the signals

With 55.16 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 39.3 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $12.66 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $12.155. The 52-week range on NU shows that it touched its highest point at $16.15 and its lowest point at $8.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.67. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.08.

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 NU was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 10.10%, but this was up by 21.89% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.85% while six-month performance rose 1.85%. The stock gained 35.48% in the past year, while it has gained 22.01% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NU yields 0.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of 76.52% for this year and 36.61% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 3.76 billion NU shares are outstanding with a float of 3.13 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 128.96 million, which was 268.00001 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. David Velez-Osomo as the firm’s Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Youssef Lahrech serves as its COO & President.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.8262 of NU’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for NU since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 NU analysts setting a high price target of 18.9 and a low target of 9.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.06. Based on these targets, NU could surge 49.53% to reach the target high and fall by -28.8% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.15% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.44365 being high and $0.40331 being low. For NU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.42348. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.15 and the low estimate is $0.11. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.13.