The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Despegar.com Corp (NYSE: DESP)

Despegar.com Corp (NYSE:DESP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.26M but it saw 1709478 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.60B USD, the company’s current market price of $19.14 came falling about -0.05 while comparing to the previous closing price of $19.15. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $19.55 and as low as $9.25. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $19.13 while lowest mark touched by it was $19.2.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Despegar.com Corp (DESP) gives us an average price of $19.22, while its current price level is -2.10% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 106.92% 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 $19.22 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $15.41. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 0.42% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 0.33%. 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 44.37 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

TD Cowen downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Sell” from “Buy” on November 25, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $12-$14. Citigroup issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $11.50 and $14.50.

Over the week, DESP’s stock price is moving -0.52% down while it is -0.26% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -0.57% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 53.73%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Nov-13, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.39 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.85. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $178.5M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $762.7M and seeing the company making $826.92M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $212.4M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Despegar.com Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 66.65M with 13.66% of that held by the insiders while 80.10% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 22.55%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 95700.00 while having a 20.07 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.64. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.12. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.25% on average.