Applovin Corp (NASDAQ:APP) price on Thursday, March 20, rose 3.27% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $306.74.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $297.03, moving within a range at $292.471 and $315.4084. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.33 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 67.55. Turning to its 52-week performance, $525.15 and $60.67 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, APP moved -37.93% over the past month.
Applovin Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $104.28 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-11.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.38B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.27B and 1.4B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 29.99% 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 5.71B, representing a 21.26% 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 APP is a 50% Sell. 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.
21 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, 13 recommend APP as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 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 1.75, with APP’s current price about -1.30% and -12.37% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 46.88, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.67% and 10.30% in the 30-day chart. Further, Applovin Corp (APP) has a beta value of 2.34, and an average true range (ATR) of 31.39. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $205, forecast between a low of $147 and high of $538. Looking at the price targets, the low is 52.08% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -75.39%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 33.17% jump to $205 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Applovin Corp (NASDAQ:APP), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 10.71 over the past 10 days and 7.10 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 309.35 million shares.
The 37.47% of Applovin Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 60.87% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 13.66 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 1.68. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Applovin Corp (APP) stood at 457.00002 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 14.1 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -5.28% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the APP stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
