Needham raised the price target for the 2U Inc (NASDAQ:TWOU) stock from “a Buy” to “a Hold”. The rating was released on February 13, 2024, according to finviz. We previously noted in another research note published on November 10, 2023 by Cantor Fitzgerald that downgraded the stock from an Overweight to a Neutral with a price target of $1.50 for TWOU stock. The stock was downgraded by Robert W. Baird, who disclosed in a research note on August 09, 2023, from Outperform to Neutral and set the price objective to $4. In their research brief published April 27, 2023, Cantor Fitzgerald analysts upgraded the 2U Inc stock from Neutral to Overweight with a price target of $7.40.
Historical Earnings Surprises and Revenue Forecasts
Profit is the most critical financial performance measure. Every investor in a business is looking forward to the earnings report as stock price to increase when earnings exceed market expectations and progressively decrease when earnings do not meet expectations. The firm reported an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.48 during the last quarter as opposed to a consensus estimate of $0.64, which indicates the company missed its estimate by -$0.16, which implies that the company surprised the market by -25.00%. It appears that the average earnings per share estimate for the current quarter (ending in Mar 2024) is -$0.33. This is an average of 5 analysts’ earnings, where the high earnings per share estimate is -$0.29 and the low earnings per share estimate is -$0.36. According to 4 analyst estimates, an average revenue estimate of $196.14M is projected for the current quarter with a high revenue estimate of $196.93M and a low estimate of $195.1M.
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The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated -15.55% within the last five trades and -21.07% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -88.91% in the last 6 months and -72.80% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. TWOU stock is trading at a margin of -21.09%, -52.27% and -85.43% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, TWOU deals in the Consumer Defensive domain. The stock is trading -96.26 percent below its 52-week high and 1.16 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -87.99. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does 2U Inc’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 0.77 percent and the profit margin is -33.58 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 69.91 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $27.07 million as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 8.72. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 0.03 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 0.12, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 8.57 percent of 2U Inc shares are owned by insiders, and 73.70 percent are held by financial institutions. McCullough Aaron, the CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER at 2U Inc (TWOU) has bought 51,565 shares of firm on Dec 12 ’23 at a price of $0.99 against the total amount of $50895.0. In another inside trade, Macias Edward S., Director of 2U Inc (NASDAQ:TWOU) sold 2,300 shares of the firm on Dec 06 ’23 for a total worth of $2300.0 at a price of $1.00. An inside trade which took place on Aug 17 ’23, CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER of 2U Inc McCullough Aaron bought 45,700 shares of firm against total price of $0.14 million at the cost of $3.14 per share.
