Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) price on current trading day, fall -0.88% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $981.34.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $990.06. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 49.49. Turning to its 52-week performance, $1064.50 and $542.01 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, NFLX moved 0.98% over the past month.
Netflix Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $419.78 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 10.5B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 10.41B and 10.9B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 12.01% 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 44.3B, representing a 13.58% 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 NFLX is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
42 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 14 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 25 recommend NFLX as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 2 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 2.20, with NFLX’s current price about -2.71% and 3.81% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 48.78, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.18% and 2.49% in the 30-day chart. Further, Netflix Inc (NFLX) has a beta value of 1.38, and an average true range (ATR) of 27.62. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $825, forecast between a low of $650 and high of $1200. Looking at the price targets, the low is 33.76% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -22.28%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 15.93% jump to $825 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 3.59 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 427.76 million shares.
The 0.72% of Netflix Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 83.65% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 10.10% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the NFLX stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
