Paysafe Limited (NYSE:PSFE) saw an upside of 0.65% to close Friday at $12.37 after adding $0.08 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,252,460 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $15.08 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 541,245 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 520,844.
PSFE’s 1-month performance is 4.30% or $0.30 on its low of $11.09 reached on 08/08/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $9.34 and high of $26.40, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 03/09/23. YTD, PSFE has lost -10.94% or -$1.52 and has reached a new high 15 times. However, the current price is down -53.14% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
PSFE stock has a beta of 1.80. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.49 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.86.
Paysafe Limited’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.10, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.10. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 2.90, while the total debt to equity was 2.91. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 58.90%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 23.23% while for the period ending June 29, Paysafe Limited’s operating margin was 6.80%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $882.11 million against revenue of $1.5 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 grew 94.04% to -$1.86 billion, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected PSFE to announce $0.13 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.03, representing a -123.10% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $100.59 million. PSFE stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 4.53 billion, with total debt at $2.61 billion.
Let’s look briefly at Paysafe Limited (PSFE) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 18 August was 51.71% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 136.48%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $12.95, reflecting a +2.74% or $0.33 change from its current price. PSFE is currently trading +6.09% above its 20-day SMA, -25.39% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +16.59% and SMA200 by-29.39%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 41.77% and 58.80% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.90. The RSI (14) points at 52.94%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 32.08% with the period’s ATR at 0.81. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.36 and 0.63 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Paysafe Limited (NYSE: PSFE), Susquehanna downgraded it to a Neutral rating. They previously had a Positive rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for PSFE stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate PSFE as a “sell,”, while 4 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 1 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is PSFE’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $13.70 and a high of $64.00, with their median price target at $16.25. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Paysafe Limited (PSFE) stock is $24.03.
