iHeartMedia Inc (NASDAQ:IHRT) price on Friday, July 25, fall -2.48% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.97.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $2.02, moving within a range at $1.945 and $2.02. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.84. Turning to its 52-week performance, $2.84 and $0.95 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, IHRT moved 14.53% over the past month.
iHeartMedia Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $263.75 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-12.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that IHRT is a 100% Buy. 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% 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend IHRT 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.
IHRT’s current price about 1.31% and 17.71% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 57.77, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.80% and 6.52% in the 30-day chart. Further, iHeartMedia Inc (IHRT) has a beta value of 1.88. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $5, forecast between a low of $5 and high of $5. Looking at the price targets, the low is -153.81% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -153.81%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -153.81% jump to $5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on iHeartMedia Inc (NASDAQ:IHRT), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.39 over the past 10 days and 679.58K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 128.29 million shares.
The 23.32% of iHeartMedia Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 75.21% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 6.7 million on 2025-07-15, giving us a short ratio of 9.07. The data shows that as of 2025-07-15 short interest in iHeartMedia Inc (IHRT) stood at 827.9999999999999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 6.65 million registered in 2025-06-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 25.08% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the IHRT stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
