With 2.98 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.52 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $68.7 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $63.89. The 52-week range on UPST shows that it touched its highest point at $88.95 and its lowest point at $20.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $59.77. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.26.
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 UPST was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.00%, but this was up by 2.25% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 28.41% while six-month performance rose 131.81%. The stock gained 92.87% in the past year, while it has gained 5.16% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UPST yields -1.93 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.56. For the next quarter, that number is -0.04. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.95% for this year and 219.69% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 91.00 million UPST shares are outstanding with a float of 78.87 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 19.32 million, which was 2118.0001 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. David J. Girouard as the firm’s Co-Founder, President, CEO & Chairperson of the Board, Mr. Paul Gu serves as its Co-Founder, CTO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.57515 of UPST’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
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Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UPST since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 4 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 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 UPST analysts setting a high price target of 100.0 and a low target of 12.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 62.17857. Based on these targets, UPST could surge 54.44% to reach the target high and fall by -81.47% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -3.97% 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 $-0.4408 being high and $-0.47816 being low. For UPST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $-0.47069.
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