Major Brokerage Firms Issue Research Notes on SAP SE (SAP)

SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) saw a downside of -1.54% to $133.71 after subtracting -$2.09 on Tuesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 663,720 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $135.87 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 1,077,820 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 890,622.

SAP’s 1-month performance is -0.87% or $0.45 on its low of $131.11 reached on 07/26/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $78.22 and high of $145.10, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 07/17/23. YTD, SAP has achieved 29.58% or $30.52 and has reached a new high 30 times. However, the current price is down -7.85% from the 52-week high price.

Valuation Metrics

SAP stock has a beta of 1.18. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 4.77 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 3.40, with the price to cash flow ratio at 27.76.

SAP SE’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.40, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.40. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.20, while the total debt to equity was 0.26. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 71.90%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 24.01% while for the period ending June 29, SAP SE’s operating margin was 16.30%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $23.11 billion against revenue of $32.53 billion.

Earnings Surprise

For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -130.12% to $2.56 billion, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected SAP to announce $1.28 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $3.45, representing a 169.50% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $1.87 billion. SAP stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 29.98 billion, with total debt at $11.1 billion.

Let’s look briefly at SAP SE (SAP) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 07 August was 44.81% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 23.12%.

The stock’s 5-day moving average is $133.58, reflecting a -1.96% or -$2.68 change from its current price. SAP is currently trading -1.91% above its 20-day SMA, +15.67% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +3.30% and SMA200 by+54.17%.

Stochastic %K and %D was 24.59% and 18.49% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 2.44. The RSI (14) points at 46.19%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 25.00% with the period’s ATR at 2.40. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.45 and 0.10 on the 14-day charts.

Analyst Ratings

In the most recent analyst report for SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), Jefferies upgraded it to a Hold rating. They previously had an Underperform rating on the stock.

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