With 1.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.95 million shares. The 52-week range on COUR shows that it touched its highest point at $16.18 and its lowest point at $6.29 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.88. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.40.
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 COUR was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.07%, but this was down by -9.34% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -1.29% while six-month performance fell -4.24%. The stock lost -51.36% in the past year, while it has lost -9.76% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COUR yields -0.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.45. For the next quarter, that number is 0.08. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.65% for this year and 22.89% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.89% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -7.49%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 160.07 million COUR shares are outstanding with a float of 132.35 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for COUR since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 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.
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 $0.32082 being high and $0.26067 being low. For COUR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.30077. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.12 and the low estimate is $0.04. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.08.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded COUR stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
