Analyzing Stock On Your Own: ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc ADR (NYSE: ZTO)

ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc ADR (NYSE:ZTO) does about 4.63M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3673164 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 12.77B USD. Its current market price is $21.34, marking a decrease of -1.25% compared to the previous close of $21.61. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $30.05 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $15.90.

ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc ADR (ZTO) has a 20-day trading average at $20.53 and the current price is -28.99% off the 52-week high compared with 34.26% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $20.48 and its 200-day simple moving average is $22.13. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.99%, which increases to 2.02% 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 59.07 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $28.70, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 25.64% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on November 07, 2023 when BofA Securities downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $34 and $28. Goldman upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Neutral on April 25, 2023 at a price target of $37-$42.

ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc ADR (ZTO) stock is up 6.17% over the week and 1.91% over the past month. Its price is 0.28% year-to-date and -22.09% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 25.64 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 13.00% and return on equity of 15.22%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 14.39 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 10.88. The beta has a value of -0.06. Price to book ratio is 1.54 and price to sales ratio is 2.34.