JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) shares, rose in value on Thursday, May 25, with the stock price up by 0.27% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $135.71.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $135.34, falling within a range of $135.08 and $136.35. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.08 whereas the PE ratio is 9.98 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $144.34, and the low was $101.28. On the whole, JPM has fluctuated by 0.35% over the past month.
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With the market capitalization of JPMorgan Chase & Co. currently standing at about $396.41 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for Jul 14, 2023. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 4.00, with its dividend yield at 2.96%. As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $3.98, which is expected to increase to $3.92 for fiscal year $14.62 and then to about $13.97 by fiscal year 2024. Data indicates that the EPS growth is expected to be 21.00% in 2024, while the next year’s EPS growth is forecast to be -4.40%.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $38.87 billion, with a low estimate of $34.74 billion and a high estimate of $42.44 billion. According to the average forecast, sales growth in current quarter could jump up 22.90%, compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2024, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $151.52 billion, representing an increase of 14.50% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were 5 upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that JPM’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
26 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 8 analyst(s), 14 recommend it as a Buy and 4 called the JPM stock Overweight. In the meantime, 0 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 0 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Overweight.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of JPM currently trading nearly -0.91% and 1.43% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 48.18, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.77% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.94%. Furthermore, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s beta value is 1.08, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.71. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $160.83 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $140.00 and a high of $196.00. Based on these price targets, the low is -3.16% off current price, whereas the price has to move -44.43% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $160.00 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -17.9% from the current levels.
A comparison of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. JPM showed an intraday change of 0.27% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 7.40%%. In comparison, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) has moved higher at 0.27% today and is up 7.40% over the past 12 months. On the other hand, the price of Bank of America Corporation (BAC) has risen 0.14% today. The stock, however, is off -21.07% from where it was a year ago. Additionally, there is a gain of 0.71% for Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) in recent trading while the stock has seen an overall depriciation of -4.92%% over the past year. The PE ratio stands at 9.98 for JPMorgan Chase & Co., compared to 9.98 for JPMorgan Chase & Co., and 8.47 for Bank of America Corporation. Other than that, the overall performance of the S&P 500 during the today’s session so far shows that it gained 0.74%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Slipped by -0.12%.
Data on historical trading for JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 9.79 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 14.82 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 2.97 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.10% of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 70.80% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 17.27 million shares as on May 14, 2023, resulting in a short ratio of 1.53. According to the data, the short interest in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) stood at 0.59% of shares outstanding as of May 14, 2023; the number of short shares registered in Apr 13, 2023 reached 17.19 million. The stock has risen by 1.20% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the JPM stock heading into the next quarter.
