ACI Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: ACIW) is 4.68% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $28.79 and a high of $59.71 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 ACIW stock was last observed hovering at around $53.48 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.86%.
Currently trading at $54.34, the stock is 3.58% and 0.04% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.88 million and changing 1.61% at the moment leaves the stock 20.54% off its SMA200. ACIW registered 80.83% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 27.80%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $54.3156 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $45.0811.
The stock witnessed a 0.61% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 3.25%, and is 4.26% 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 2.36% over the week and 2.73% over the month.
ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW) has around 3212 employees, a market worth around $5.70B and $1.62B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 25.76 and Fwd P/E is 28.90. Profit margin for the company is 14.04%. Distance from 52-week low is 88.75% and -8.99% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.82%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 39.88% this year
506.0 institutions hold shares in ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW), with institutional investors hold 101.37% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 104.87M, and float is at 103.60M with Short Float at 1.94%. Institutions hold 100.45% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 18.26 million shares valued at $722.91 million. The investor’s holdings represent 17.0974 of the ACIW Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 13.27 million shares valued at $525.25 million to account for 12.4226 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC which holds 6.45 million shares representing 6.0402 and valued at over $255.39 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.1189 of the shares totaling 4.4 million with a market value of $174.15 million.
ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Behrens Scott W, the company’s Chief Financial Officer. SEC filings show that Behrens Scott W sold 60,749 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 11 ’24 at a price of $55.69 per share for a total of $3.38 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.49 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 06 ’24, Kuruvilla Abraham (Chief Technology Officer) disposed off 5,400 shares at an average price of $55.71 for $0.3 million. The insider now directly holds 81,107 shares of ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW).
