TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) saw an upside of 0.04% to close Friday at $77.25 after adding $0.03 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 985,320 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $79.61 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 1,247,725 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,433,624.
TRU’s 1-month performance is -3.37% or -$3.45 on its low of $76.30 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $50.32 and high of $82.71, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 07/26/23. YTD, TRU has achieved 36.12% or $20.50 and has reached a new high 17 times. However, the current price is down -6.60% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
TRU stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Aug 08.MAULDIN RICHARD DANE (EVP – Operations) most recently sold 2,000 shares at $77.02 per share on Aug 08. This transaction cost the insider $154,040. President, US Markets & CI, CHAOUKI STEVEN M, sold 951 shares at a price of $80.31 on Jul 24. Then, on Jun 29, Former EVP, Chief Info & Tech Dhar Abhi sold 3,500 shares at a price of $80.00 per share. This transaction amounted to $280,000.
Valuation Metrics
TRU stock has a beta of 1.36. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 3.98 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 3.42, with the price to cash flow ratio at 38.81.
TransUnion’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.50, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.50. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 1.23, while the total debt to equity was 1.25. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 65.10%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $2.49 billion against revenue of $3.71 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. Analysts expected TRU to announce $0.83 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.86, representing a 3.60% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $288.5 million. TRU stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 7.16 billion, with total debt at $5.59 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $193.3 million.
Let’s look briefly at TransUnion (TRU) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 18 August was 38.27% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 17.88%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $78.38, reflecting a -1.60% or -$1.26 change from its current price. TRU is currently trading -3.81% above its 20-day SMA, +32.46% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +3.84% and SMA200 by+30.34%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 32.52% and 39.01% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.57. The RSI (14) points at 43.80%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 27.70% with the period’s ATR at 1.60. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.37 and -0.59 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), Needham upgraded it to a Buy rating. They previously had a Hold rating on the stock.
