Following The Money: Institution’s Growing Stake In Copart, Inc (NASDAQ: CPRT)

Copart, Inc (CPRT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $56.27, with 3.95 million shares of worth about $222.53 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 6.65% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -0.88%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 963.53M shares, out of which, 881.00M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -5.81% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.36%. Year-to-date (YTD), CPRT shares are showing a performance of -1.95% which increased to 9.52% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $48.05 but also hit the highest price of $64.38 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Copart, Inc shares is 3.64 million. The stock is currently trading -3.45% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.06% for SMA50 and it goes to 2.41% higher than SMA200.

Copart, Inc (NASDAQ: CPRT) currently have 963.53M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.45% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $54.22B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.30. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 37.70, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.49 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.53 and has Quick Ratio of 7.57 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CPRT, volatility over the week remained 2.97% while standing at 1.97% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 12.78% while it is estimated to increase by 13.23% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 14.92% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 17.85% 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 JP Morgan on February 27, 2024 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $48 to it. Coverage by HSBC Securities stated Copart, Inc (CPRT) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on December 04, 2023, suggesting a price target of $51 for the stock. Stock get an Overweight rating from Stephens on February 12, 2021.

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