Veeva Systems Inc (NYSE:VEEV) price on Friday, January 17, rose 0.86% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $216.59.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $214.75, moving within a range at $214.4575 and $217.65. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.813 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 53.51. Turning to its 52-week performance, $258.93 and $170.25 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VEEV moved -3.60% over the past month.
Veeva Systems Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $35.16 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in February.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VEEV 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 50% Buy category.
17 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 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 14 recommend VEEV as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 2.68, with VEEV’s current price about 0.55% and -2.71% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 48.49, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.49% and 2.61% in the 30-day chart. Further, Veeva Systems Inc (VEEV) has a beta value of 0.85, and an average true range (ATR) of 6.02. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $235, forecast between a low of $207 and high of $281. Looking at the price targets, the low is 4.43% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -29.74%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -8.5% jump to $235 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Veeva Systems Inc (NYSE:VEEV), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.03 over the past 10 days and 1.13 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 162.16 million shares.
The 8.91% of Veeva Systems Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 79.55% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.35 million on 2024-11-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.61. The data shows that as of 2024-11-15 short interest in Veeva Systems Inc (VEEV) stood at 160.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.21 million registered in 2024-10-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.02% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VEEV stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
