With 42.67 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 36.02 million shares. During the session, the Capital Markets company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $43.37 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $40.61. The 52-week range on HOOD shows that it touched its highest point at $66.91 and its lowest point at $13.98 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $67.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.18.
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 HOOD was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -12.44%, but this was down by -10.09% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 8.05% while six-month performance rose 76.48%. The stock gained 109.44% in the past year, while it has gained 13.15% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HOOD yields 1.56 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.70. For the next quarter, that number is 0.36. This implies an EPS growth rate of -8.04% for this year and 18.69% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 764.90 million HOOD shares are outstanding with a float of 736.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 22.62 million, which was 254.99999999999997 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Vladimir Tenev as the firm’s Co-Founder, President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt serves as its Co-Founder & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.73489 of HOOD’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 2024-12-31, HOOD reported revenue of $1014000000.0 and operating income of $558000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $580000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.01.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HOOD since 18 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 5 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 HOOD analysts setting a high price target of 105.0 and a low target of 34.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 66.077. Based on these targets, HOOD could surge 149.05% to reach the target high and fall by -19.35% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 56.73% 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 $1.0115 being high and $0.82491 being low. For HOOD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.95258. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.43 and the low estimate is $0.29. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.38.
