Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT): Uncovering A True Diamond In The Rough

Rackspace Technology Inc (NASDAQ:RXT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 629.80K but it saw 4330242 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 684.88M USD, the company’s current market price of $3.03 came rising about 5.94 while comparing to the previous closing price of $2.86. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $3.18 and as low as $1.22. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $2.87 while lowest mark touched by it was $3.4088.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT) gives us an average price of $2.60, while its current price level is -4.68% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 148.36% 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 $2.54 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $2.19. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 10.16% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 6.84%. 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 67.49 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 UBS which initiated the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on November 07, 2023, recommending a price target of $1.40 for it. Raymond James upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Mkt Perform” on September 19, 2023 while assigning a price target of $3.50. Citigroup issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $1.25 and $1.50.

Over the week, RXT’s stock price is moving 15.65% up while it is 7.83% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 51.50% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 133.08%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -0.03 beat the consensus estimate of -0.04 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.04 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.28. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $664.13M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $2.73B and seeing the company making $2.72B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $674.98M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Rackspace Technology Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 217.40M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -36.14% and return on equity (ROE) at -352.76%. Stock’s beta reads 2.02. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.25. Its return on asset (ROA) is -20.85% on average.