Pure Storage Inc (NYSE:PSTG) price on current trading day, fall -11.27% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $55.40.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $62.44. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 146.07. Turning to its 52-week performance, $73.67 and $40.95 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PSTG moved -17.07% over the past month.
Pure Storage Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $18.08 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 771.68M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 769.63M and 782M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 11.28% 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 3.52B, representing a 11.19% 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 PSTG is a 50% Buy. 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% Sell 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, 11 recommend PSTG 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 12.48, with PSTG’s current price about -16.91% and -15.86% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 27.93, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.49% and 3.48% in the 30-day chart. Further, Pure Storage Inc (PSTG) has a beta value of 1.07, and an average true range (ATR) of 3.10. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $68.5, forecast between a low of $56 and high of $93. Looking at the price targets, the low is -1.08% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -67.87%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -23.65% jump to $68.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Pure Storage Inc (NYSE:PSTG), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.84 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 327.13 million shares.
The 5.45% of Pure Storage Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 84.97% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock -9.81% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PSTG stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
