Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE: FOUR) is 5.16% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $55.87 and a high of $116.84 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The FOUR stock was last observed hovering at around $108.34 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.8%.
Currently trading at $109.14, the stock is 5.45% and 7.30% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.33 million and changing 0.74% at the moment leaves the stock 35.76% off its SMA200. FOUR registered 54.59% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 49.14%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $101.7184 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $80.39475.
The stock witnessed a -4.39% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 22.34%, and is 1.90% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.31% over the week and 4.50% over the month.
Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) has around 3030 employees, a market worth around $9.91B and $3.15B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 59.17 and Fwd P/E is 23.93. Profit margin for the company is 4.03%. Distance from 52-week low is 95.35% and -6.59% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.45%).
with sales reaching $997.44M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 29.85% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 35.11% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 41.40% in year-over-year returns.
Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) Top Institutional Holders
498.0 institutions hold shares in Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR), with institutional investors hold 107.47% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 70.30M, and float is at 67.29M with Short Float at 9.74%. Institutions hold 105.84% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 5.8 million shares valued at $425.52 million. The investor’s holdings represent 8.7712% of the FOUR Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is DURABLE CAPITAL PARTNERS LP with 4.97 million shares valued at $364.47 million to account for 7.5129 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are WASATCH ADVISORS LP which holds 3.9 million shares representing 5.9% and valued at over $286.23 million, while CITIGROUP INC holds 5.4429 of the shares totaling 3.6 million with a market value of $264.05 million.
Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Disman Nancy, the company’s Chief Financial Officer. SEC filings show that Disman Nancy sold 20,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 16 ’24 at a price of $100.61 per share for a total of $2.01 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.16 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 11 ’24, Frankel Jordan disposed off 5,000 shares at an average price of $99.01 for $0.5 million. The insider now directly holds 222,112 shares of Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR).
