X Financial (NYSE:XYF) shares, rose in value on Thursday, 05/25/23, with the stock price up by 14.84% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $3.56.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $3.10, falling within a range of $3.13 and $3.98. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.53 whereas the PE ratio was 2.09 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $4.50, and the low was $1.62. On the whole, XYF has fluctuated by 11.25% over the past month.
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With the market capitalization of X Financial currently standing at about $179.57 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for May 22, 2023 – May 26, 2023.
Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2021, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $483.3 million, representing an increase of 9.00% 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 no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that XYF’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
1 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 1 analyst(s), 0 recommend it as a Buy and 0 called the XYF 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 Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.07, with the price of XYF currently trading nearly 6.67% and 11.79% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 56.90, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 10.06% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 9.43%. Furthermore, X Financial (XYF)’s beta value is 0.54, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.29. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $5.10 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $5.10 and a high of $5.10. Based on these price targets, the low is -43.26% off current price, whereas the price has to move -43.26% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $5.10 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -43.26% from the current levels.
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Data on historical trading for X Financial (NYSE:XYF) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.28 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 36.49K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 53.62 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.68% of X Financial’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 1.00% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 4370.0 shares as on Apr 27, 2023, resulting in a short ratio of 0.32. According to the data, the short interest in X Financial (XYF) stood at 0.01% of shares outstanding as of Apr 27, 2023; the number of short shares registered in Mar 30, 2023 reached 2110.0. The stock has risen by 17.88% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the XYF stock heading into the next quarter.
