The Vanguard Group, Inc. has recently announced that it has increased stake in Porch Group Inc (NASDAQ:PRCH) by 1.30%. After grabbing 5.77 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 74291.0 shares of the Technology Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 5.83% having worth around $8.77 million. Moreover, Fidelity National Financial, Inc increased its share by 4.7 million to have a control over 4.7 million shares. And Luminus Management LLC raised its holdings to 1.15 million shares by acquiring 2.27 million shares or 2.30% of the stake.
Porch Group Inc (PRCH) concluded trading on 12/27/23 at a closing price of $3.46, with 2.96 million shares of worth about $10.24 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 158.21% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 9.32%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 98.46M shares, out of which, 75.81M shares are available for trading.
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According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 61 times over the past 12 months. They bought 4,771,716 shares in 39 of the transactions. In 22 selling transactions, insiders dumped 2,745,744 shares.
Fidelity Global Innovators Invest, JNL Multi-Manager Small Cap Growt, and Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Porch Group Inc Fidelity Global Innovators Invest is currently holding 3.26 million shares of worth totaling $4.95 million. The company recently came buying 0.0 shares which brought its stake up to 3.30% of the company’s outstanding shares. JNL Multi-Manager Small Cap Growt sold -0.11 million shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares shrunk to 2.69%, leaving 2.65 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $4.04 million. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, after buying 2.46 million shares, have now control over 2.49% of the stake in the company. It holds 0.0 shares of worth $3.74 million.
Porch Group Inc (NASDAQ: PRCH) started trading at $3.20, above $0.04 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 3.6600, or with a gain of 9.32%. Stock saw a price change of 29.10% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 123.23%. Year-to-date (YTD), PRCH shares are showing a performance of 84.04% which increased to 103.53% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.50 but also hit the highest price of $3.99 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Porch Group Inc shares is 1.46 million. The stock is currently trading 54.83% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 141.24% for SMA50 and it goes to 187.57% higher than SMA200.
The Vanguard Group, Inc. acquired 5.77 million shares of Porch Group Inc having value of about $8.77 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by The Vanguard Group, Inc. revealed that the firm now holds 74291.0 shares in the company valued at close to $257046.86, or have control over 1.30% stake in the company. Porch Group Inc (NASDAQ: PRCH) currently have 98.46M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 47.33% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 25.39% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 34.69% and 21.97% of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $342.09M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 2.07. It has posted earnings per share of -$1.74 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.01. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PRCH, volatility over the week remained 10.71% while standing at 11.95% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Porch Group Inc (PRCH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -$0.2 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.27 and it is -$0.81 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.31 which is -$0.12 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -$0.36 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 2.13% while it is estimated to increase by 43.83% in next year.
Analysts at 9 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Porch Group Inc (PRCH)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Strong Buy” and assign it a score of 1.67. Out of those 9 Wall Street analysts, 6 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 3 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Loop Capital on March 15, 2023 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $4 and $2 to it.
