With 1.55 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.48 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $12.85 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $12.205. The 52-week range on EZPW shows that it touched its highest point at $12.85 and its lowest point at $9.65 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.00. EZPW paid its most recent dividend on 949622400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 949622400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.92.
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 EZPW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.06%, but this was up by 2.15% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.20% while six-month performance rose 13.92%. The stock gained 19.88% in the past year, while it has gained 1.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EZPW yields 1.12 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.42. For the next quarter, that number is 0.31. This implies an EPS growth rate of 17.26% for this year and 8.38% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.92% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 89.24%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 52.05 million EZPW shares are outstanding with a float of 48.99 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 8.36 million, which was 1535.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Phillip Ean Cohen B.Com., M.B.A. as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Lachlan P. Given BBus serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.15063 of EZPW’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, EZPW reported revenue of $320170000.0 and operating income of $41949000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $52874000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.4.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EZPW since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 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 EZPW analysts setting a high price target of 22.0 and a low target of 13.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 16.83333. Based on these targets, EZPW could surge 77.99% to reach the target high and rise by 9.22% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 36.19% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.15128 being high and $1.12059 being low. For EZPW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.13333. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.29 and the low estimate is $0.26. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.28.
