CoreCivic Inc (NYSE:CXW) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 3.04% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $21.68.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $21.04, moving within a range at $20.92 and $21.73. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.799 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 28.35. Turning to its 52-week performance, $24.99 and $11.81 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CXW moved -1.23% over the past month.
CoreCivic Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $2.37 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-07.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that CXW 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.
1 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, 0 recommend CXW 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 Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
CXW’s current price about 3.07% and -0.30% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 57.49, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.46% and 2.92% in the 30-day chart. Further, CoreCivic Inc (CXW) has a beta value of 0.81. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $15.5, forecast between a low of $14 and high of $17. Looking at the price targets, the low is 35.42% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 21.59%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 28.51% jump to $15.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on CoreCivic Inc (NYSE:CXW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.89 over the past 10 days and 1.01 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 109.32 million shares.
The 2.82% of CoreCivic Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 85.59% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.98 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 3.45. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in CoreCivic Inc (CXW) stood at 279.99999 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 3.15 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 60.12% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CXW stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
