Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd ADR (NASDAQ:MLCO) does about 3.06M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 5833101 shares change hands in Monday’s trading. The company now has a market cap of 3.25B USD. Its current market price is $7.44, marking an increase of 3.19% compared to the previous close of $7.21. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $14.45 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $6.61.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd ADR (MLCO) has a 20-day trading average at $7.23 and the current price is -48.53% off the 52-week high compared with 12.47% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $7.90 and its 200-day simple moving average is $9.46. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.25%, which increases to 3.98% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 49.60 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $10.82, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 31.24% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on December 15, 2023 when Susquehanna initiated the stock to “Positive” and issued a price target of $15.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd ADR (MLCO) stock is up 7.83% over the week and -3.75% over the past month. Its price is -16.12% year-to-date and -41.05% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.36 below consensus estimates by -$0.4. MLCO’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 131.70% this year and 180.00% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $1.14 billion, which analysts say will come at $4.63 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $4.98 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $1.12 billion.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 31.24 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 437.09M with insiders holding 0.00% of the shares and institutional holders owning 40.66% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -4.32%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 12.21. The beta has a value of 1.12. Price to sales ratio is 0.86.
