GDS Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:GDS) saw an upside of 4.91% to $11.10 after adding $0.52on Wednesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,051,472 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $11.38 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 931,858 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 957,105.
GDS’s 1-month performance is -7.58% or -$0.36 on its low of $10.07 reached on 08/21/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $8.41 and high of $30.78, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/04/23. YTD, GDS has lost -46.17% or -$9.48 and has reached a new high 2 times. However, the current price is down -63.94% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
GDS stock has a beta of 0.76. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.76 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.65.
GDS Holdings Limited’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.30, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.30. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 1.76, while the total debt to equity was 2.07. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 20.50%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 46.89% while for the period ending June 29, GDS Holdings Limited’s operating margin was 8.20%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $287.67 million against revenue of $1.39 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 12.98% to -$224.22 million, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected GDS to announce -$0.27 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.18, representing a 33.30% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $151.82 million. GDS stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 8.06 billion, with total debt at $48.58 billion.
Let’s look briefly at GDS Holdings Limited (GDS) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 47.73% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 55.90%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $10.67, reflecting a +2.30% or $0.25 change from its current price. GDS is currently trading -9.72% above its 20-day SMA, -44.36% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -6.93% and SMA200 by+20.96%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 19.35% and 11.89% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.64. The RSI (14) points at 46.64%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 37.68% with the period’s ATR at 0.67. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.22 and -0.68 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
Analysts offering their rating for GDS stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate GDS as a “sell,”, while 2 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 13 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is GDS’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $87.52 and a high of $221.25, with their median price target at $112.81. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for GDS Holdings Limited (GDS) stock is $132.22.
