Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT) saw a downside of -0.55% to close Monday at $7.18 after subtracting -$0.04 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 5,954,180 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $7.49 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 5,678,500 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 6,927,088.
CLVT’s 1-month performance is 1.13% or $0.04 on its low of $6.75 reached on 09/08/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $6.41 and high of $11.99, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 03/01/23. YTD, CLVT has lost -13.91% or -$1.16 and has reached a new high 16 times. However, the current price is down -40.12% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
CLVT stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Nov 15.Samson James Gordon (Chief Product Officer) most recently sold 100,000 shares at $10.48 per share on Nov 15. This transaction cost the insider $1,048,110.
Valuation Metrics
CLVT stock has a beta of 1.15. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.86 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.88, with the price to cash flow ratio at 9.39.
Clarivate Plc’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.95, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.95. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.71, while the total debt to equity was 0.71. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 37.76%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 36.69% while for the period ending June 29, Clarivate Plc’s operating margin was 9.48%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.71 billion against revenue of $2.66 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 130.84% to -$141.7 million, while revenue of $24.7 million was 117.43% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected CLVT to announce $0.2 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.21, representing a 5.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $89.8 million. CLVT stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 6.77 billion, with total debt at $4.95 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $676.23 million.
Let’s look briefly at Clarivate Plc (CLVT) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 25 September was 43.94% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 17.51%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $7.27, reflecting a -2.05% or -$0.15 change from its current price. CLVT is currently trading +0.56% above its 20-day SMA, -14.11% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -27.25% and SMA200 by-21.10%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 59.10% and 61.73% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.22. The RSI (14) points at 43.06%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 58.11% with the period’s ATR at 0.23. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.05 and 0.01 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), Barclays downgraded it to an Underweight rating. They previously had an Equal weight rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for CLVT stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate CLVT as a “sell,”, while 3 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 5 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is CLVT’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $6.00 and a high of $11.00, with their median price target at $9.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Clarivate Plc (CLVT) stock is $8.83.
