Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) price on Friday, February 07, remained unchanged to $11.75.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $11.75, moving within a range at $11.57 and $11.94. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.767 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 24.87. Turning to its 52-week performance, $19.56 and $7.75 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, GRPN moved -7.41% over the past month.
Groupon Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $467.27 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 127.74M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 124.9M and 132.21M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -7.25% 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 489.92M, representing a -4.85% decline 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 GRPN is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
3 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend GRPN 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.
GRPN’s current price about 7.35% and 5.11% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 60.42, while 7-day volatility ratio is 6.41% and 5.36% in the 30-day chart. Further, Groupon Inc (GRPN) has a beta value of 1.42, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.61. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $29.5, forecast between a low of $12 and high of $30. Looking at the price targets, the low is -2.13% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -155.32%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -151.06% jump to $29.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.71 over the past 10 days and 1.37 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 39.76 million shares.
The 46.41% of Groupon Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 49.47% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 7.62 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 7.36. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Groupon Inc (GRPN) stood at 3052.0000000000005 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 8.1 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock -3.29% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the GRPN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.