Olaplex Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:OLPX) saw an upside of 2.29% to close Monday at $3.57 after adding $0.08 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,203,480 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $3.66 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 1,713,780 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,764,404.
OLPX’s 1-month performance is -7.75% or -$0.30 on its low of $3.37 reached on 08/02/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $3.05 and high of $17.23, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, OLPX has lost -31.48% or -$1.64 and has reached a new high 8 times. However, the current price is down -79.28% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
OLPX stock has a beta of 1.64. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 3.63 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 2.88, with the price to cash flow ratio at 10.04.
Olaplex Holdings Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended March 30 was 7.40, with the current ratio over the same period at 9.70. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending March 30 was 0.81, while the total debt to equity was 0.82. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 72.70%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 58.72% while for the period ending March 30, Olaplex Holdings Inc.’s operating margin was 46.60%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $519.55 million against revenue of $704.27 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending March 30 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -195.61% to $20.96 million, while revenue of $33.63 million was -60.45% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected OLPX to announce $0.04 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.05, representing a 25.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $48.2 million. OLPX stock balance sheet for the quarter ending March 30 shows that total liabilities totaled 919.21 million, with total debt at $659.76 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $654.28 million.
Let’s look briefly at Olaplex Holdings Inc. (OLPX) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 07 August was 42.09% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 49.80%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $3.48, reflecting a -0.83% or -$0.03 change from its current price. OLPX is currently trading -11.19% above its 20-day SMA, -10.30% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +6.25% and SMA200 by-63.53%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 16.24% and 10.96% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.19. The RSI (14) points at 43.88%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 25.64% with the period’s ATR at 0.19. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.10 and -0.21 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Olaplex Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: OLPX), TD Cowen downgraded it to a Market perform rating. They previously had an Outperform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for OLPX stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 2 brokerage advisors rate OLPX as a “sell,”, while 7 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 3 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is OLPX’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $3.00 and a high of $15.00, with their median price target at $4.50. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Olaplex Holdings Inc. (OLPX) stock is $5.84.
