Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd (NYSE:ZIM) saw a downside of -3.31% to close Tuesday at $10.53 after subtracting -$0.36 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,520,420 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $12.02 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 2,293,530 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,570,266.
ZIM’s 1-month performance is -11.21% or -$1.33 on its low of $10.50 reached on 09/26/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $10.67 and high of $29.38, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 03/23/23. YTD, ZIM has lost -38.74% or -$6.66 and has reached a new high 11 times. However, the current price is down -64.16% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
ZIM stock has a beta of 1.95. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.16 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.26, with the price to cash flow ratio at 0.47.
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.08, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.15. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.68, while the total debt to equity was 1.01.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 27.47%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 59.53% while for the period ending June 29, Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd’s operating margin was 23.84%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $6.43 billion against revenue of $12.56 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 shrunk -0.45% to $4.62 billion, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected ZIM to announce -$0.88 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$1.79, representing a -103.40% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $253.7 million. ZIM stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 5.83 billion, with total debt at $4.88 billion.
Let’s look briefly at Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd (ZIM) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 26 September was 31.26% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 48.72%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $11.08, reflecting a -10.61% or -$1.25 change from its current price. ZIM is currently trading -10.76% above its 20-day SMA, -36.95% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -17.73% and SMA200 by-40.47%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 18.02% and 20.57% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.52. The RSI (14) points at 33.43%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 1.96% with the period’s ATR at 0.52. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.27 and -0.34 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd (NYSE: ZIM), JP Morgan upgraded it to an Overweight rating. They previously had a Neutral rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for ZIM stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate ZIM as a “sell,”, while 2 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 1 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is ZIM’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $10.60 and a high of $14.50, with their median price target at $13.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd (ZIM) stock is $12.62.
