New Insights About The Trade Desk Inc. (TTD)

The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) at last check was buoying at $82.41 on Friday, September 15, with a fall of -3.47% from its closing price on previous day.

Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $85.37 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.72 with its price kept floating in the range of $83.76 and $85.885 on the day. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 332.30. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that TTD hit a high price of $91.85 and saw its price falling to a low level of $39.43 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 13.29% in its value.

With its current market valuation of $40.60 billion, The Trade Desk Inc. is set to declare its quarterly results on Nov 07, 2023 – Nov 13, 2023. Analysts are in estimates of $0.29 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to $1.24 for 2023 with estimates of that growing to $1.49 in next year. These estimates are suggesting current year growth of 19.20% for EPS and 20.20% growth next year.

Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of $486.57 million. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as $485 million which could climb up to $490 million to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 26.00% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of $1.94 billion in 2023, which will be 23.20% more from revenue generated by the company last year.

In last 7 days, analysts came adjusting their opinions about stock’s EPS with no upward and no downward revisions, an indication which could give clearer idea about the company’s short term price movement. In contrast, when we review TTD stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 50% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 100% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.

According to ratings assigned by 32 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 4 of them are recommending The Trade Desk Inc. (TTD) as a Hold, while 20 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 1 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 3, whereas 4 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.

Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the TTD stock which is currently positioned at 13.85. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 3.61% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 0.87% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 52.83 while volatility remained at 2.73% over the past week which changes to 3.13% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.72, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 2.61. In predicting price targets of as low as $28.00 and as high as $105.00, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $86.98. Stock’s current price level is 66.02% above from estimated low price target while it is -27.41% below the estimated high; and even if the TTD’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $93.50, then the outlook of -13.46% could come to the excitement of the investors.

In comparing The Trade Desk Inc. (TTD)’s stock with other industry players reveals that stock’s latest price change of -3.47% and that of 29.56% over the past 12 months is in competing position with that of Marin Software Incorporated (MRIN) which saw its stock price fall by -3.01% in the recent trading and went through a decrease of -72.53% in past 12-month trading. The Trade Desk Inc. has a P/E ratio of 332.30. On the other hand, the S&P 500 Index is down -0.94% in the early deals today while the Dow Jones Industrial was dealinglower at -0.57%.

Having a second look at The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 4.22 million, while it jumped to 3.1 million when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 488.43 million.

The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 0.20% while it is 77.20% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of Aug 14, 2023, number of stock’s short shares was 12.07 million which implies a short ratio of 2.51. This shows down a 2.46% of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In August the standing of shares short improved as it was 13.19 million in the previous month. Addition of 83.83% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in today’s trading is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.