Estimating Price Trends For BuzzFeed Inc (NASDAQ: BZFD)

BuzzFeed Inc (NASDAQ:BZFD) does about 504.94K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2899276 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 113.45M USD. Its current market price is $3.20, marking an increase of 4.58% compared to the previous close of $3.06. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $4.56 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.64.

BuzzFeed Inc (BZFD) has a 20-day trading average at $2.73 and the current price is -29.82% off the 52-week high compared with 397.51% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.68 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.22. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 16.59%, which decreases to 9.85% 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 61.97 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 20.0% over the period.

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

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on November 22, 2022 when Cowen downgraded the stock to “Market Perform” and issued a price target of between $3 and $2. BofA Securities also downgraded the stock to “Underperform” from Neutral on August 11, 2022 at a price target of $4.50-$2. BofA Securities initiated its price target at $5.

The current price level is 17.16%, 19.54%, and 43.89% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the BZFD price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. BuzzFeed Inc (BZFD) stock is up 0.63% over the week and 28.00% over the past month. Its price is 220.00% year-to-date and 150.16% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 20.0 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 35.03M with insiders holding 33.92% of the shares and institutional holders owning 26.17% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -56.66% and return on equity of -28.67%. The beta has a value of 3.40. Price to book ratio is 1.69 and price to sales ratio is 0.49.