With 102.82M Outstanding Shares, Can Chegg Inc (NYSE: CHGG) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.36M but it saw 3602906 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 204.23M USD, the company’s current market price of $1.97 came falling about -0.51 while comparing to the previous closing price of $1.98. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $11.48 and as low as $1.97. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $1.97 while lowest mark touched by it was $2.09.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Chegg Inc (CHGG) gives us an average price of $2.8250, while its current price level is -82.84% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 0.00% 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 $2.9944 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $6.9865. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 7.20% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 7.74%. 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 25.82 which implies that the stock is in oversold territory.

Morgan Stanley upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Equal-Weight” from “Underweight” on July 16, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $6.50-$3.25. Jefferies issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $7 and $4.

Over the week, CHGG’s stock price is moving -12.83% down while it is -44.35% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -82.66% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -79.90%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.18 beat the consensus estimate of 0.17 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Oct-28, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.08 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.87. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $162.75M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $633.58M and seeing the company making $590.51M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $134.13M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Chegg Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 102.82M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -100.44% and return on equity (ROE) at -89.53%. It has a 1.99 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.39. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.56 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.30. Its return on asset (ROA) is -40.67% on average.