Shopify Inc’s (SHOP) Stock Is Harder To Predict Than You Think

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Shopify Inc (NASDAQ:SHOP) price on Thursday, April 10, fall -7.41% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $84.63.

A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $91.40, moving within a range at $81.3872 and $87.397. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.825 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 54.45. Turning to its 52-week performance, $129.38 and $48.56 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SHOP moved -12.33% over the past month.

Shopify Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $109.58 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-10.

Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SHOP is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.

34 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 13 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 21 recommend SHOP as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 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 1.94, with SHOP’s current price about -10.94% and -20.10% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 41.40, while 7-day volatility ratio is 15.92% and 7.78% in the 30-day chart. Further, Shopify Inc (SHOP) has a beta value of 2.66, and an average true range (ATR) of 8.95. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $110, forecast between a low of $80 and high of $130. Looking at the price targets, the low is 5.47% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -53.61%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -29.98% jump to $110 which is the analysts’ median price.

If we refocus on Shopify Inc (NASDAQ:SHOP), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 19.0 over the past 10 days and 10.43 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 1.22 billion shares.

The 6.41% of Shopify Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 65.34% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 15.15 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 1.6. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Shopify Inc (SHOP) stood at 208.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 15.4 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -20.41% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SHOP stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.

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