The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Chegg Inc (NYSE: CHGG)

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Chegg Inc (NYSE:CHGG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.87M but it saw 2597351 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 168.98M USD, the company’s current market price of $1.63 remained unchanged while comparing to the previous closing price of $1.63. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $11.48 and as low as $1.63. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $1.63 while lowest mark touched by it was $1.71.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Chegg Inc (CHGG) gives us an average price of $1.8690, while its current price level is -85.80% 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 $2.3392 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $5.8977. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 5.33% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 6.58%. 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 32.87 which implies that the stock is in neutral 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 -11.41% down while it is -28.51% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -85.65% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -81.56%.

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 1.65 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.32. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.46 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.25. Its return on asset (ROA) is -40.67% on average.