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Why Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (DFIN) Stock Could See Much Higher Prices Ahead

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (NYSE: DFIN) is -1.04% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $56.02 and a high of $71.01 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The DFIN stock was last observed hovering at around $62.19 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.11%.

Currently trading at $62.08, the stock is 2.00% and 1.84% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.21 million and changing -0.18% at the moment leaves the stock -0.92% off its SMA200. DFIN registered 1.97% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -4.49%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $60.9564 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $62.6574.

The stock witnessed a -0.99% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -6.42%, and is 6.69% 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 2.72% over the week and 2.72% over the month.

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (DFIN) has around 1900 employees, a market worth around $1.79B and $802.10M in sales. Current P/E ratio is 19.40 and Fwd P/E is 15.26. Profit margin for the company is 12.06%. Distance from 52-week low is 10.82% and -12.58% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (16.72%).

with sales reaching $169.2M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 8.24% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -0.30% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -4.14% in year-over-year returns.

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (DFIN) Top Institutional Holders

372.0 institutions hold shares in Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (DFIN), with institutional investors hold 102.04% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 28.90M, and float is at 27.30M with Short Float at 4.60%. Institutions hold 97.98% of the Float.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 4.2 million shares valued at $250.43 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.3357% of the DFIN Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is MAWER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LTD. with 2.11 million shares valued at $125.86 million to account for 7.2052 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 1.82 million shares representing 6.2027% and valued at over $108.35 million, while SIMCOE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 4.3577 of the shares totaling 1.28 million with a market value of $76.12 million.

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (DFIN) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Gardella David A, the company’s Chief Financial Officer. SEC filings show that Gardella David A sold 3,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 17 ’24 at a price of $62.68 per share for a total of $0.19 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.2 million shares.

Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 06 ’24, Leib Daniel (Chief Executive Officer) disposed off 60,000 shares at an average price of $59.09 for $3.55 million. The insider now directly holds 515,191 shares of Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc (DFIN).

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