The trading price of Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) closed lower on Tuesday, March 25, and closing at $0.62, -13.68% lower than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $0.62 and $0.7245. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $7.80 and a 52-week low of $0.69. Over the past month, the stock has lost -60.24% in value.
Chegg Inc, whose market valuation is $65.20 million at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-23. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 0.01 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 0.13 for current year and 0.0 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 114.81M for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 114.1M and highs of 115.2M. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 430.41M.
On the technical side, indicators suggest CHGG has a 100% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned CHGG a recommendation rating is 15. Out of them, 7 rate it a Hold, while 2 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Chegg Inc (CHGG) as Underweight, while 6 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that CHGG’s price is currently -26.37% off the SMA20 and -49.38% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 25.49, and weekly volatility stands at 9.70%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 11.27%. Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.76, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.10. With analysts defining $1.5-$4 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $2.75 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -141.94% off the estimated low and -545.16% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if CHGG’s share price rises to $2.75, which is the median consensus price. At that level, CHGG’s share price would be -343.55% below current price.
To see how Chegg Inc stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: CHGG stock’s performance was -13.68% in the latest trading, and -92.27% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) indicates that the 3-month average is 3.34 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 2.65.
Currently, records show that 104.88 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 7.16% of outstanding shares, whereasinstitutions hold 77.10%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-02-28, stood at 10.07 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 2.66 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 1266.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in February were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 10.6 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -61.47% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
