Outfront Media Inc (OUT): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

Outfront Media Inc (NYSE:OUT) does about 1.49M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1292978 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.07B USD. Its current market price is $18.50, marking an increase of 1.37% compared to the previous close of $18.25. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $18.65 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $8.18.

Outfront Media Inc (OUT) has a 20-day trading average at $17.06 and the current price is -0.80% off the 52-week high compared with 126.16% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $16.17 and its 200-day simple moving average is $14.91. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.90%, which increases to 3.17% 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 72.71 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $18.57, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 0.38% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 5 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 1 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 3 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Hold and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on September 19, 2024 when Wells Fargo resumed the stock to “Overweight” and issued a price target of $22.

The current price level is 9.00%, 14.87%, and 24.31% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the OUT price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Outfront Media Inc (OUT) stock is up 4.88% over the week and 16.65% over the past month. Its price is 32.52% year-to-date and 81.37% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 6/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.09 below consensus estimates by -0.04. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.18 and 1.43 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $502.75M, which analysts say will come at $1.84B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.89B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $456.63M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 0.38 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 165.05M with insiders holding 7.39% of the shares and institutional holders owning 96.36% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 4.69% and return on equity of 29.78%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 14.82 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 22.27. The beta has a value of 1.95. Price to book ratio is 4.62 and price to sales ratio is 1.67.