With 0.84 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.21 million shares. The 52-week range on ECPG shows that it touched its highest point at $51.77 and its lowest point at $34.87 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $59.75. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.59.
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 ECPG was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -30.89%, but this was down by -30.34% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -30.17% while six-month performance fell -30.46%. The stock lost -28.17% in the past year, while it has lost -27.82% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ECPG yields -5.88 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.06. For the next quarter, that number is 1.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of 201.68% for this year and 36.01% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 23.69 million ECPG shares are outstanding with a float of 22.99 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 ECPG 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.
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 $5.23106 being high and $4.82332 being low. For ECPG, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.062. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.54 and the low estimate is $0.91. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.23.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded ECPG 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.
