Investors Are Waking Up To Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ: PLYA) After Rising 49.39% Over The Past 12 Months

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (NASDAQ:PLYA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.92M but it saw 6211999 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.71B USD, the company’s current market price of $13.43 came rising about 0.15 while comparing to the previous closing price of $13.41. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $13.44 and as low as $6.95. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $13.4 while lowest mark touched by it was $13.43.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V (PLYA) gives us an average price of $13.35, while its current price level is -0.07% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 93.24% 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 $13.33 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $10.36. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 0.25% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 0.45%. 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 64.65 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 0.07% up while it is 0.98% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 6.17% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 49.39%.

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 29.18% of that held by the insiders while 68.59% 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 24.72 while having a 17.04 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.66. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.39 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.82. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.93% on average.