A Few Bright Spots In iQIYI Inc ADR (NASDAQ: IQ)

iQIYI Inc ADR (NASDAQ:IQ) currently has a daily average trading volume of 9.63M but it saw 4077061 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.66B USD, the company’s current market price of $3.16 came rising about 0.32 while comparing to the previous closing price of $3.15. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $6.47 and as low as $3.01. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $3.12 while lowest mark touched by it was $3.23.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of iQIYI Inc ADR (IQ) gives us an average price of $3.35, while its current price level is -51.16% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 4.98% 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 $3.77 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $4.22. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 4.17% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.82%. 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 36.18 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the HSBC Securities which downgraded the stock as “Reduce” in its note to investors issued on July 23, 2024, recommending a price target of between $4.70 and $3 for it. Macquarie issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $5.12.

Over the week, IQ’s stock price is moving -1.56% down while it is -19.39% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -35.25% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -46.80%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.05 beat the consensus estimate of 0.05 for the same. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.12B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $4.41B and seeing the company making $4.64B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.03B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, iQIYI Inc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 525.01M with 0.22% of that held by the insiders while 66.46% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 9.02% and return on equity (ROE) at 16.58%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 11.27 while having a 6.94 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.09. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.94 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.38. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.91% on average.