PDD Holdings Inc ADR (NASDAQ:PDD) saw an upside of 0.79% to close Monday at $96.69 after adding $0.76 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 6,966,900 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $99.75 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 12,281,575 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 10,229,728.
PDD’s 1-month performance is 23.53% or $16.78 on its low of $79.00 reached on 08/28/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $38.80 and high of $106.38, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/27/23. YTD, PDD has achieved 18.57% or $15.14 and has reached a new high 6 times. However, the current price is down -9.11% from the 52-week high price.
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Valuation Metrics
PDD stock has a beta of 0.78. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 5.41 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 6.42.
PDD Holdings Inc ADR’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.91, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.91. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.02, while the total debt to equity was 0.13. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 72.08%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 25.38% while for the period ending June 29, PDD Holdings Inc ADR’s operating margin was 23.72%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $14.37 billion against revenue of $18.93 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 73.34% to $4.57 billion, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected PDD to announce $1 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $1.43, representing a 43.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $1.75 billion. PDD stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 17.78 billion, with total debt at $18.27 billion.
Let’s look briefly at PDD Holdings Inc ADR (PDD) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 25 September was 54.21% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 34.16%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $95.52, reflecting a -3.13% or -$3.12 change from its current price. PDD is currently trading +21.00% above its 20-day SMA, +50.63% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +21.64% and SMA200 by+11.25%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 30.11% and 25.20% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 3.74. The RSI (14) points at 56.67%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 44.37% with the period’s ATR at 3.86. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -2.21 and -2.50 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for PDD Holdings Inc ADR (NASDAQ: PDD), Goldman upgraded it to a Buy rating. They previously had a Neutral rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for PDD stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate PDD as a “sell,”, while 3 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 6 rates the stock as overweight while 36 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is PDD’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $576.04 and a high of $1159.38, with their median price target at $866.62. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for PDD Holdings Inc ADR (PDD) stock is $862.05.
