With 1.47 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.26 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $48.07 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $46.1. The 52-week range on QFIN shows that it touched its highest point at $48.50 and its lowest point at $17.76 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $53.01. With its current market cap of 7.35 billion, QFIN has annualized dividend of $1.18 while the current yield stands at 2.53%. QFIN paid its most recent dividend on 1727395200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1745366400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.57.
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 QFIN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 14.58%, but this was up by 5.49% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 24.21% while six-month performance rose 86.16%. The stock gained 151.02% in the past year, while it has gained 21.65% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for QFIN yields 5.79 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.57. For the next quarter, that number is 1.65. This implies an EPS growth rate of 17.87% for this year and 12.46% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.35% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 18.00%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 157.36 million QFIN shares are outstanding with a float of 143.87 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 3.61 million, which was 231.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. Haisheng Wu as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Zuoli Xu CFA serves as its CFO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.70058 of QFIN’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for QFIN since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 QFIN analysts setting a high price target of 59.984245 and a low target of 42.581688, the average target price over the next 12 months is 50.58569. Based on these targets, QFIN could surge 28.47% to reach the target high and fall by -8.8% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.34% 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 $41.93024 being high and $40.34525 being low. For QFIN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $41.13775. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
