Parsons Corp (PSN) concluded trading on Thursady at a closing price of $79.44, with 4.74 million shares of worth about $376.28 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 42.01% during that period and on Thursady the price saw a gain of about 5.51%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 105.84M shares, out of which, 104.73M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 27 times over the past 12 months. They bought 154,143 shares in 24 of the transactions. In 3 selling transactions, insiders dumped 17,469 shares.
3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode
The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.
We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.
Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored
Stock saw a price change of 9.71% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 20.56%. Year-to-date (YTD), PSN shares are showing a performance of 26.68% which increased to 77.56% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $40.61 but also hit the highest price of $75.93 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Parsons Corp shares is 588.02K. The stock is currently trading 16.39% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 21.60% for SMA50 and it goes to 41.12% higher than SMA200.
Parsons Corp (NYSE: PSN) currently have 105.84M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 98.39% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $8.41B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.81. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 56.31, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.41 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.21 and has Quick Ratio of 1.52 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.41. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PSN, volatility over the week remained 2.97% while standing at 2.16% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Parsons Corp (PSN) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.63 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.71 and it is $3.23 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.57 which is $0.77 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 $0.43 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 18.70% while it is estimated to increase by 12.06% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 10.80% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -8.68% 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 Robert W. Baird on January 16, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $68 and $75 to it. Coverage by KeyBanc Capital Markets stated Parsons Corp (PSN) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on January 10, 2024, suggesting a price target of $74 for the stock. On August 14, 2023, BofA Securities Upgrade their recommendations, while on July 28, 2023, Truist Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $60. Stock get an Outperform rating from William Blair on March 28, 2023.
