Coursera Inc (NYSE:COUR) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 1.42% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $8.57.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $8.45, moving within a range at $8.41 and $8.61. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.381. Turning to its 52-week performance, $11.74 and $5.76 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, COUR moved -5.62% over the past month.
Coursera Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.38 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-24.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that COUR is a 50% Buy. 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 100% Buy category.
7 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 6 recommend COUR 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.
COUR’s current price about 0.09% and -0.84% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 49.83, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.09% and 3.15% in the 30-day chart. Further, Coursera Inc (COUR) has a beta value of 1.36. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $16.5, forecast between a low of $10.5 and high of $35. Looking at the price targets, the low is -22.52% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -308.4%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -92.53% jump to $16.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Coursera Inc (NYSE:COUR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.38 over the past 10 days and 1.88 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 161.30 million shares.
The 16.50% of Coursera Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 69.42% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.0 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 2.37. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Coursera Inc (COUR) stood at 292.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 6.04 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 21.22% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the COUR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
