Volatility Is Your Friend: Despegar.com Corp (DESP) Is Hot Again

Despegar.com Corp (NYSE:DESP) does about 712.71K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 665958 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 812.54M USD. Its current market price is $12.30, marking a decrease of -0.65% compared to the previous close of $12.38. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $13.23 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $5.24.

Despegar.com Corp (DESP) has a 20-day trading average at $12.20 and the current price is -6.99% off the 52-week high compared with 134.73% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $11.15 and its 200-day simple moving average is $8.81. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.97%, which increases to 4.06% 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 55.09 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $13.90, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 11.51% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 29, 2024 when Citigroup downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $11.50 and $14.50. Morgan Stanley upgraded its price target at $6.50-$13.

Despegar.com Corp (DESP) stock is down -3.98% over the week and 7.14% over the past month. Its price is 30.02% year-to-date and 123.64% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 11.51 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 71.44%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 41000.00 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 11.17. The beta has a value of 2.02. Price to sales ratio is 1.15.