The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ: ZG)

Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:ZG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 721.20K but it saw 1131019 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 9.79B USD, the company’s current market price of $41.44 came falling about -1.33 while comparing to the previous closing price of $42.00. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $59.23 and as low as $33.23.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Zillow Group Inc (ZG) gives us an average price of $43.36, while its current price level is -30.04% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 24.71% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $47.98 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $47.97. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.32% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 3.04%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 34.91 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

JMP Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Mkt Outperform” from “Mkt Perform” on December 12, 2023 while assigning a price target of $60. Deutsche Bank issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $50.

Over the week, ZG’s stock price is moving -3.36% down while it is -9.42% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -26.94% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -4.18%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.35 beat the consensus estimate of 0.11 for the same. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $559.15M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $2.18B and seeing the company making $2.48B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $508.65M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Zillow Group Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 55.28M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -2.81% and return on equity (ROE) at -3.51%. It has a 20.40 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.86. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.14 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.03. Its return on asset (ROA) is -2.39% on average.