Dayforce Inc (DAY) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $69.31, with 6.41 million shares of worth about $444.14 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -6.93% during that period and on Wednesday February 7 the price saw a loss of about -2.72%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 156.30M shares, out of which, 150.87M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.30% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.67%. Year-to-date (YTD), DAY shares are showing a performance of 3.26% which decreased to -6.35% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $55.62 but also hit the highest price of $79.66 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Dayforce Inc shares is 1.28 million. The stock is currently trading 2.13% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.65% for SMA50 and it goes to 2.66% higher than SMA200.
Dayforce Inc (NYSE: DAY) currently have 156.30M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 107.38% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.82B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.32. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 199.17, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.35 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.02 and has Quick Ratio of 1.09 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.52. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DAY, volatility over the week remained 5.00% while standing at 3.10% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Dayforce Inc (DAY) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.32 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.44 and it is $1.67 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.27 which is $0.4 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 $0.23 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 10.74% while it is estimated to increase by 24.92% in next year.
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 Stifel on January 10, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $75 to it.
