Moelis & Co (NYSE: MC): Making Its Way Up The Stock Market

Moelis & Co (NYSE:MC) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.69% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $51.63.

Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $50.77, falling within a range of $50.95 and $52.2. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.523 whereas the PE ratio was 29.27 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $82.89, and the low was $46.24. On the whole, MC has fluctuated by -14.21% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Moelis & Co currently standing at about $3.96 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-04. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.45, with its dividend yield at 4.75%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.34B, with a low estimate of 269.33M and a high estimate of 364M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 303.62M.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MC’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.37, with the price of MC currently trading nearly -6.79% and -18.33% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 38.28, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.34% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.56%. Furthermore, Moelis & Co (MC)’s beta value is 1.66, and its average true range (ATR) is 3.16.

A comparison of Moelis & Co (MC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MC showed an intraday change of 1.69% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 1.02%%.

Data on historical trading for Moelis & Co (NYSE:MC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.18 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.02 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 70.59 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 1.06% of Moelis & Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 98.58% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 4.96 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 4.12. According to the data, the short interest in Moelis & Co (MC) stood at 1047.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 3.84 million. The stock has fallen by -30.12% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MC stock heading into the next quarter.

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