Some Investing Thoughts On Copart, Inc (NASDAQ: CPRT)

Copart, Inc (CPRT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $53.04, with 4.16 million shares of worth about $220.41 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 7.32% during that period and on March 12, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.25%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 966.05M shares, out of which, 883.34M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -2.52% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -9.53%. Year-to-date (YTD), CPRT shares are showing a performance of -7.58% which decreased to -3.49% 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 4.05 million. The stock is currently trading -5.43% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.77% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.40% lower than SMA200.

Copart, Inc (NASDAQ: CPRT) currently have 966.05M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 82.28% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $51.24B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.25. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 35.63, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.49 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.39 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 2.18% while standing at 2.24% 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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