StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ: STNE): Overvalued In Comparison To Others?

StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price down by -0.52% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $11.39.

Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $11.45, falling within a range of $10.9 and $11.56. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.331. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $17.93, and the low was $7.72. On the whole, STNE has fluctuated by 17.91% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of StoneCo Ltd currently standing at about $3.36 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Mar-17.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 15.32B, with a low estimate of 3.8B and a high estimate of 3.8B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.8B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that STNE’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of STNE currently trading nearly 14.01% and 19.72% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 68.98, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.79% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 4.49%. Furthermore, StoneCo Ltd (STNE)’s beta value is 2.09, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.50.

A comparison of StoneCo Ltd (STNE) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. STNE showed an intraday change of -0.52% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -30.12%%.

Data on historical trading for StoneCo Ltd (NASDAQ:STNE) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 7.78 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 6.41 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 269.09 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 16.39% of StoneCo Ltd’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 71.70% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 30.02 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.92. According to the data, the short interest in StoneCo Ltd (STNE) stood at 1198.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 28.34 million. The stock has risen by 42.91% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the STNE stock heading into the next quarter.

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