2U Inc. (NASDAQ:TWOU) saw an upside of 9.28% to close Tuesday at $3.18 after adding $0.27 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,862,260 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $3.50 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 2,215,355 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,508,986.
TWOU’s 1-month performance is -19.70% or -$0.85 on its low of $2.83 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $2.83 and high of $13.15, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/03/23. YTD, TWOU has lost -49.28% or -$3.09 and has reached a new high 10 times. However, the current price is down -75.82% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
TWOU stock has a beta of 1.28. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.30 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.87.
2U Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 30 was 0.80, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.80. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 30 was 2.92, while the total debt to equity was 2.92.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 50.90%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 6.49% while for the period ending June 30, 2U Inc.’s operating margin was -31.40%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $815.28 million against revenue of $963.08 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 30 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 63.81% to -$173.65 million, while revenue of -$54.06 million was 68.87% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected TWOU to announce -$0.07 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.18, representing a -157.10% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than -$128.8 million. TWOU stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 30 shows that total liabilities totaled 1.24 billion, with total debt at $966.75 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $81.42 million.
Let’s look briefly at 2U Inc. (TWOU) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 42.31% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 234.58%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $3.03, reflecting a -6.74% or -$0.23 change from its current price. TWOU is currently trading -15.65% above its 20-day SMA, -51.96% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -27.23% and SMA200 by-46.82%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 8.99% and 6.24% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.42. The RSI (14) points at 42.85%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 20.71% with the period’s ATR at 0.41. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.29 and -0.56 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for 2U Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU), Robert W. Baird downgraded it to a Neutral rating. They previously had an Outperform rating on the stock.
