Following The Money: Institution’s Growing Stake In PagSeguro Digital Ltd (NYSE: PAGS)

PagSeguro Digital Ltd (PAGS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $13.38, with 4.15 million shares of worth about $55.49 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 26.47% during that period and on Thursday, February 01 price saw a gain of about 3.96%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 331.37M shares, out of which, 203.02M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 1.83% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 10.40%. Year-to-date (YTD), PAGS shares are showing a performance of 7.30% which increased to 32.61% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $6.93 but also hit the highest price of $13.69 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for PagSeguro Digital Ltd shares is 3.64 million. The stock is currently trading 5.20% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 15.59% for SMA50 and it goes to 34.31% higher than SMA200.

PagSeguro Digital Ltd (NYSE: PAGS) currently have 331.37M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 53.49% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $4.43B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.80. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.05, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.95 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.27 and has Quick Ratio of 1.43 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.95. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PAGS, volatility over the week remained 3.99% while standing at 3.71% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that PagSeguro Digital Ltd (PAGS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.3 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.28 and it is $1.23 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.28 which is $0.32 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 $0.25 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.82% while it is estimated to increase by 16.25% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 11.08% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 13.36% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

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 New Street on Feb-02-24 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $15 to it.

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