Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE: FOUR) is -17.31% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $55.87 and a high of $127.50 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 FOUR stock was last observed hovering at around $83.68 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 2.14%.
Currently trading at $85.82, the stock is -1.18% and -15.32% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.41 million and changing 2.56% at the moment leaves the stock -6.04% off its SMA200. FOUR registered 32.34% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of -3.14%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $101.3502 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $91.33545.
The stock witnessed a -8.31% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -18.15%, and is -0.43% down 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 3.98% over the week and 4.16% over the month.
Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR) has around 4000 employees, a market worth around $7.65B and $3.33B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 28.03 and Fwd P/E is 15.03. Profit margin for the company is 6.84%. Distance from 52-week low is 53.61% and -32.69% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.62%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 17.70% this year
581.0 institutions hold shares in Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR), with institutional investors hold 118.31% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 67.74M, and float is at 66.22M with Short Float at 12.43%. Institutions hold 116.17% 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 7.5141 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are WASATCH ADVISORS LP which holds 3.9 million shares representing 5.9011 and valued at over $286.23 million, while CITIGROUP INC holds 5.4438 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 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 14 ’25 at a price of $84.98 per share for a total of $0.85 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.18 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 10 ’25, Frankel Jordan disposed off 12,500 shares at an average price of $88.36 for $1.1 million. The insider now directly holds 232,454 shares of Shift4 Payments Inc (FOUR).
