Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE:VIPS) saw an upside of 5.89% to close Monday at $15.81 after adding $0.88 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 4,492,920 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $16.49 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 3,762,710 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 3,482,326.
VIPS’s 1-month performance is -5.50% or -$0.92 on its low of $14.47 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $6.36 and high of $19.13, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 07/31/23. YTD, VIPS has achieved 15.91% or $2.17 and has reached a new high 15 times. However, the current price is down -17.35% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
VIPS stock has a beta of 0.63. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.67 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.96.
Vipshop Holdings Limited’s quick ratio for the period ended March 30 was 1.00, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.10. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 21.30%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $3.13 billion against revenue of $14.96 billion.
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 grew 19.57% to $913.24 million, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected VIPS to announce $0.36 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.49, representing a 36.10% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $264.3 million.
Let’s look briefly at Vipshop Holdings Limited (VIPS) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 21 August was 40.38% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 63.06%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $15.74, reflecting a -4.24% or -$0.70 change from its current price. VIPS is currently trading -9.76% above its 20-day SMA, +3.81% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -8.93% and SMA200 by+112.21%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 20.77% and 13.95% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.87. The RSI (14) points at 42.05%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 31.46% with the period’s ATR at 0.82. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.64 and -1.12 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS), JP Morgan upgraded it to an Overweight rating. They previously had a Neutral rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for VIPS stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate VIPS as a “sell,”, while 6 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 17 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is VIPS’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $102.06 and a high of $160.38, with their median price target at $132.38. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Vipshop Holdings Limited (VIPS) stock is $132.24.
