Upwork Inc (UPWK) saw an uptrend of 2.99% in the recent trading with $16.86 being its most recent. The current price level -7.06% lower than the highest price of $18.14 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 86.50% higher than the lowest price of $9.04 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on UPWK appeared in (Yahoo Finance Video) under the title “5 ways you can make money online while avoiding scams”.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 10 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.91 for the stock.
Upwork Inc Earnings – What Happened With UPWK
Coming around sales and income figures on UPWK Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Upwork Inc (UPWK) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 13.89% for net revenue.
UPWK – Upwork Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Upwork Inc (NASDAQ:UPWK)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.25 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Upwork Inc (UPWK) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 13.89% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.29.
Upwork Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 132.51 million. UPWK does have institutional investors; and they hold 89.79% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Upwork Inc (NASDAQ:UPWK) with an ownership of 16.33 million shares of the company or 12.425 of the stake worth $175.56 million. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 7.5534 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $106.72 million for having 9.93 million shares in hand.
ANCIENT ART, L.P. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 5.5842 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 382.0 institutions which have possession in UPWK’s shares.
Key Metrics for UPWK
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Upwork Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.61.
