With 43.94M Outstanding Shares, Can Granite Construction Inc (NYSE: GVA) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Granite Construction Inc (NYSE:GVA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 647.75K but it saw 350149 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 4.31B USD, the company’s current market price of $98.69 came falling about -0.07 while comparing to the previous closing price of $98.76. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $100.57 and as low as $43.92. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $97.659 while lowest mark touched by it was $99.795.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Granite Construction Inc (GVA) gives us an average price of $95.38, while its current price level is -1.87% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 124.70% 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 $86.79 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $67.85. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.90% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.27%. 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 74.94 which implies that the stock is in overbought 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 DA Davidson which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on April 15, 2021, recommending a price target of between $35 and $55 for it. Goldman downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Sell” from “Neutral” on January 13, 2020 while assigning a price target range of $29-$26. DA Davidson issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $45 and $30.

Over the week, GVA’s stock price is moving 1.48% up while it is 19.58% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 94.04% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 117.52%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.82 beaten by the consensus estimate of 0.89 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.24 while estimate for next year EPS is 5.09. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $706.69M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $3.98B and seeing the company making $4.25B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $949.86M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Granite Construction Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 43.94M with 0.96% of that held by the insiders while 113.49% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.11% and return on equity (ROE) at 11.30%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 48.22 while having a 19.34 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.42. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.28 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.09. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.88% on average.