Carlyle Group Inc (NASDAQ: CG) Recovers 17.47% From 52-Week Low, Is CG Still A High-Risk, High-Reward Play?

Carlyle Group Inc (NASDAQ:CG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.43M but it saw 1750363 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 14.00B USD, the company’s current market price of $38.79 came rising about 6.01 while comparing to the previous closing price of $36.59. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $57.50 and as low as $33.02. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $36.63 while lowest mark touched by it was $38.94.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Carlyle Group Inc (CG) gives us an average price of $38.61, while its current price level is -32.54% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 17.47% 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 $43.35 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $46.72. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 4.55% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 7.28%. 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 48.06 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Wolfe Research upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Peer Perform” on January 03, 2025 while assigning a price target of $60. Wells Fargo issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $42.

Over the week, CG’s stock price is moving 10.04% up while it is -16.63% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -23.17% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -14.18%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-10, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.95 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.91. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $961.16M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $4.11B and seeing the company making $4.75B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $966.17M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Carlyle Group Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 357.18M with 27.77% of that held by the insiders while 65.60% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 6.97% and return on equity (ROE) at 18.90%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 13.94 while having a 8.52 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.86. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.47 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.64. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.61% on average.