Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying CarParts.com Inc (PRTS)

CarParts.com Inc (NASDAQ:PRTS) does about 685.92K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1079864 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 89.99M USD. Its current market price is $1.59, marking no change compared to the previous close of $1.59. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $5.30 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.55.

CarParts.com Inc (PRTS) has a 20-day trading average at $1.6450 and the current price is -70.00% off the 52-week high compared with 2.58% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.1996 and its 200-day simple moving average is $3.4063. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.97%, which increases to 5.23% 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 28.87 to suggest the stock is oversold.

The consensus objective for the share price is $3.69, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 56.91% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 04, 2022 when Lake Street initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $18. DA Davidson initiated its price target at $19.

CarParts.com Inc (PRTS) stock is down -0.62% over the week and -18.04% over the past month. Its price is -49.68% year-to-date and -67.94% over the past year.

PRTS’s earnings per share are forecast to shrink by -133.30% this year and 28.60% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $178.45 million, which analysts say will come at $674.65 million for the current fiscal year and next year at $697.55 million. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $167.74 million.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 56.91 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 53.71M with insiders holding 8.26% of the shares and institutional holders owning 75.80% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -5.79% and return on equity of -7.38%. The beta has a value of 1.99. Price to book ratio is 0.76 and price to sales ratio is 0.13.