With 0.57 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.46 million shares. During the session, the Software – Infrastructure company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $24.9583 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $23.61. The 52-week range on PAY shows that it touched its highest point at $38.94 and its lowest point at $16.94 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $31.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.63.
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 PAY was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -8.43%, but this was down by -7.01% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -26.07% while six-month performance rose 21.32%. The stock gained 13.39% in the past year, while it has lost -26.14% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PAY yields 0.35 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.72. For the next quarter, that number is 0.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of 10.33% for this year and 27.43% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 20.82% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 35.18%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 32.14 million PAY shares are outstanding with a float of 25.76 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 1.13 million, which was 89.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Dushyant Sharma as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Sanjay Kalra CPA serves as its Senior VP, CFO & Principal Accounting Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.77533996 of PAY’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, PAY reported revenue of $257877000.0 and operating income of $14190000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $23847000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PAY since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 PAY analysts setting a high price target of 38.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 31.0. Based on these targets, PAY could surge 57.48% to reach the target high and rise by 16.04% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.47% 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 $0.49319 being high and $0.47347 being low. For PAY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.48333. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.16 and the low estimate is $0.12. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.14.
