Data-Based Analysis Of SelectQuote Inc. (SLQT)

SelectQuote Inc. (NYSE:SLQT) concluded the trading at $1.24 on Friday, September 15 with a rise of 8.77% from its closing price on previous day.

Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $1.14 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 0.51 with its price kept floating in the range of $1.06 and $1.25 on the day. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that SLQT hit a high price of $2.94 and saw its price falling to a low level of $0.51 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came subtracting -10.79% in its value.

With its current market valuation of $210.27 million, SelectQuote Inc. is set to declare its quarterly results on Nov 01, 2023 – Nov 06, 2023. Analysts are in estimates of -$0.23 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to -$0.2 for 2024 with estimates of that growing to -$0.06 in next year. These estimates are suggesting current year growth of 42.90% for EPS and 70.00% growth next year.

Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of $207.02 million. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as $203.5 million which could climb up to $210.53 million to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 43.30% 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 $1.12 billion in 2024, which will be 11.70% 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 SLQT stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 100% Sell, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Sell. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 50% Sell for it.

According to ratings assigned by 3 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 3 of them are recommending SelectQuote Inc. (SLQT) as a Hold, while 0 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 0, whereas 0 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 SLQT stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is -0.52% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -20.37% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 44.48 while volatility remained at 17.94% over the past week which changes to 9.91% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 0.51, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.13.

In comparing SelectQuote Inc. (SLQT)’s stock with other industry players reveals that stock’s current price change of 8.77% and that of 6.90% over the past 12 months is in competing position with that of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH) which saw its stock price raised by 0.64% in the last trading and went through a decrease of -4.53% in past 12-month trading. Industry’s another major player Elevance Health Inc. (ELV) has fall -0.55% down in previous session, but over the past year has faced a fall of -6.00%, while CVS Health Corporation (CVS) was also up 1.32% however its price remained floating in the red at -29.87% over the same period. SelectQuote Inc. has a P/E ratio of 0 against that of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated’s 21.77 while Elevance Health Inc. is showing 16.55 for the same. On the other hand, the S&P 500 Index was down -1.22% in the last trading session while the Dow Jones Industrial closed the session lower at -0.83%.

Having a second look at SelectQuote Inc. (NYSE:SLQT) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 762.92K, while it jumped to 1.18 million when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 166.54 million.

The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 4.30% while it is 63.40% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of Aug 30, 2023, number of stock’s short shares was 1.84 million which implies a short ratio of 2.85. This shows up a 1.10% of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In August the standing of shares short improved as it was 1.61 million in the previous month. Addition of 84.55% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.