EZCorp, Inc (NASDAQ: EZPW) is 29.30% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $9.65 and a high of $16.35 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 EZPW stock was last observed hovering at around $15.76 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.04%.
Currently trading at $15.80, the stock is 4.18% and 11.33% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.29 million and changing 0.25% at the moment leaves the stock 29.69% off its SMA200. EZPW registered 46.03% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 40.32%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $14.1916 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $12.18275.
The stock witnessed a 13.26% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 30.15%, and is 4.43% 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 2.75% over the week and 4.39% over the month.
EZCorp, Inc (EZPW) has around 8000 employees, a market worth around $868.03M and $1.18B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 14.15 and Fwd P/E is 11.55. Profit margin for the company is 7.25%. Distance from 52-week low is 63.65% and -3.36% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (6.95%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 12.50% this year
271.0 institutions hold shares in EZCorp, Inc (EZPW), with institutional investors hold 124.48% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 52.05M, and float is at 49.34M with Short Float at 18.56%. Institutions hold 119.11% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 9.76 million shares valued at $102.21 million. The investor’s holdings represent 17.782 of the EZPW Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP with 4.22 million shares valued at $44.23 million to account for 7.6953 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 3.39 million shares representing 6.1523 and valued at over $35.49 million, while WASATCH ADVISORS LP holds 4.6735 of the shares totaling 2.57 million with a market value of $26.86 million.
EZCorp, Inc (EZPW) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Swies Nicole, the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. SEC filings show that Swies Nicole sold 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 05 ’24 at a price of $12.47 per share for a total of $0.12 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.1 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 22 ’24, Sajnani Sunil (Chief Audit/LP Executive) disposed off 34,493 shares at an average price of $12.42 for $0.43 million. The insider now directly holds 66,242 shares of EZCorp, Inc (EZPW).
