With 6.7 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 8.21 million shares. During the session, the Real Estate Services company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $22.66 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.7. The 52-week range on BEKE shows that it touched its highest point at $26.05 and its lowest point at $12.48 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.70. With its current market cap of 24.78 billion, BEKE has annualized dividend of $0.35 while the current yield stands at 1.56%. BEKE paid its most recent dividend on 1712188800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1712188800. Beta for the stock currently stands at -0.79.
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 BEKE was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -8.26%, but this was up by 15.25% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.76% while six-month performance rose 58.03%. The stock gained 71.56% in the past year, while it has gained 21.82% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BEKE yields 0.49 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.17. For the next quarter, that number is 0.24. This implies an EPS growth rate of -14.23% for this year and 21.02% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.12 billion BEKE shares are outstanding with a float of 1.09 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 36.54 million, which was 302.99999 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Yongdong Peng as the firm’s Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Wangang Xu serves as its Executive Vice Chairman.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.45257 of BEKE’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, BEKE reported revenue of $22584647000.0 and operating income of $726964000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $573026000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.99.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BEKE since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 BEKE analysts setting a high price target of 32.990955 and a low target of 17.783993, the average target price over the next 12 months is 25.31962. Based on these targets, BEKE could surge 47.02% to reach the target high and fall by -20.75% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.83% 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 $7.12787 being high and $6.775 being low. For BEKE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.98672. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.45 and the low estimate is $0.99. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.27.
