Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Playtika Holding Corp (PLTK)

Playtika Holding Corp (NASDAQ:PLTK) does about 1.05M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 734110 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 2.88B USD. Its current market price is $7.76, marking an increase of 1.31% compared to the previous close of $7.66. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $12.90 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $6.25.

Playtika Holding Corp (PLTK) has a 20-day trading average at $7.10 and the current price is -39.82% off the 52-week high compared with 24.16% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $7.09 and its 200-day simple moving average is $8.50. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.21%, which decreases to 2.64% 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 70.92 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $9.69, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 19.92% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 22, 2024 when HSBC Securities downgraded the stock to “Hold” and issued a price target of $8. BofA Securities also downgraded the stock to “Underperform” from Neutral on January 18, 2024 at a price target of $11-$8. Citigroup upgraded its price target at $11.

Playtika Holding Corp (PLTK) stock is up 8.38% over the week and 12.63% over the past month. Its price is -11.01% year-to-date and -24.66% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 19.92 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 10.37%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.10 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 10.96. The beta has a value of 0.78. Price to sales ratio is 1.12.