Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ: PLYA) – Time For Strategy Change?

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ:PLYA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.29M but it saw 5896732 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.70B USD, the company’s current market price of $13.33 came falling about -0.07 while comparing to the previous closing price of $13.34. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $13.40 and as low as $6.95. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $13.33 while lowest mark touched by it was $13.35.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (PLYA) gives us an average price of $13.32, while its current price level is -0.52% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 91.80% 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 $13.05 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $9.91. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 0.19% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 0.29%. 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 62.63 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Deutsche Bank downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on February 11, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $15-$13.50. Truist also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $13.

Over the week, PLYA’s stock price is moving 0.15% up while it is -0.07% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 5.38% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 39.87%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-24, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.33 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.5. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $235.37M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $928.72M and seeing the company making $992.1M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $262.24M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V’s total number of outstanding shares is 121.55M with 29.79% of that held by the insiders while 69.47% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.78% and return on equity (ROE) at 14.24%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 24.54 while having a 16.91 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.92. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.36 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.81. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.93% on average.