Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc (CNSL): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CNSL) does about 463.51K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 4488017 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 554.43M USD. Its current market price is $4.68, marking a decrease of -0.43% compared to the previous close of $4.70. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $4.72 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.18.

Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc (CNSL) has a 20-day trading average at $4.67 and the current price is -0.74% off the 52-week high compared with 11.83% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $4.65 and its 200-day simple moving average is $4.48. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 0.26%, which increases to 0.50% 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 55.48 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.35, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -7.59% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 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 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Hold 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 July 07, 2022 when Citigroup downgraded the stock to “Sell” and issued a price target of $5. Citigroup upgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Sell on March 08, 2022 at a price target of $4-$5. Citigroup downgraded its price target at $8-$4.

The current price level is 0.17%, 0.64%, and 4.40% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the CNSL price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc (CNSL) stock is down -0.43% over the week and 1.08% over the past month. Its price is 7.59% year-to-date and 6.12% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.45 and -1.41 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $272.41M, which analysts say will come at $1.08B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.1B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $265.24M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -7.59 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -7.75% and return on equity of -25.38%. The beta has a value of 0.98. Price to book ratio is 2.45 and price to sales ratio is 0.51.