Affirm Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:AFRM) price on current trading day, rose 0.96% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $58.77.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $58.21, moving within a range at $58.44 and $60.36. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 3.477. Turning to its 52-week performance, $73.34 and $22.25 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, AFRM moved -16.87% over the past month.
Affirm Holdings Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $18.46 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in February.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 807.18M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 788.25M and 869.6M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 36.55% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 3.1B, representing a 33.51% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that AFRM is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
16 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 7 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend AFRM as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 4 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
AFRM’s current price about -5.60% and -5.92% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 44.79, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.33% and 6.14% in the 30-day chart. Further, Affirm Holdings Inc (AFRM) has a beta value of 3.68, and an average true range (ATR) of 3.78. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $54, forecast between a low of $37 and high of $82. Looking at the price targets, the low is 37.04% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -39.53%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 8.12% jump to $54 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Affirm Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:AFRM), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 5.5 over the past 10 days and 8.74 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 271.83 million shares.
The 17.75% of Affirm Holdings Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 67.20% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 14.94 million on 2024-12-31, giving us a short ratio of 2.18. The data shows that as of 2024-12-31 short interest in Affirm Holdings Inc (AFRM) stood at 563.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 16.69 million registered in 2024-11-29. Current price change has pushed the stock -3.50% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the AFRM stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
