Freshworks Inc (FRSH) Performance and Fundamentals Dashboard tells a completely different story

With 4.52 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 4.48 million shares. During the session, the Software – Application company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $19.27 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $18.535. The 52-week range on FRSH shows that it touched its highest point at $23.00 and its lowest point at $10.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $19.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.91.

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 FRSH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.64%, but this was up by 16.25% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 57.76% while six-month performance rose 48.80%. The stock lost -19.55% in the past year, while it has gained 15.03% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FRSH yields -0.34 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.52. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 49.90% for this year and 33.21% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 232.73 million FRSH shares are outstanding with a float of 177.27 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 7.69 million, which was 254.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Rathna Girish Mathrubootham as the firm’s Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Mr. Dennis M. Woodside J.D. serves as its CEO, President & Director.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.81776 of FRSH’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, FRSH reported revenue of $186575000.0 and operating income of $-38864000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $-32525000.0 and diluted EPS was $-0.1.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for FRSH since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 FRSH analysts setting a high price target of 24.0 and a low target of 13.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 19.0. Based on these targets, FRSH could surge 29.03% to reach the target high and fall by -30.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 2.15% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.39552 being high and $0.37976 being low. For FRSH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.38975. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.14 and the low estimate is $0.11. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.12.

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