Ziff Davis Inc (ZD) saw an uptrend of 4.57% in the recent trading with $37.95 being its most recent. The current price level -32.81% lower than the highest price of $56.48 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 32.92% higher than the lowest price of $28.55 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on ZD appeared in (StockStory) under the title “Spotting Winners: Ziff Davis (NASDAQ:ZD) And Digital Media & Content Platforms Stocks In Q3”.
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 Moderate Buy by 4 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 2.25 for the stock.
Ziff Davis Inc Earnings – What Happened With ZD
Coming around sales and income figures on ZD 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. Ziff Davis Inc (ZD) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/31/2024, posting a surprise factor of -2.01% for net revenue.
ZD – Ziff Davis Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Ziff Davis Inc (NASDAQ:ZD)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 2.63 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Ziff Davis Inc (ZD) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/31/2024, posting a surprise factor of -2.01% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 2.58.
Ziff Davis 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 39.99 million. ZD does have institutional investors; and they hold 112.16% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. was the top most holder in Ziff Davis Inc (NASDAQ:ZD) with an ownership of 5.72 million shares of the company or 12.5632 of the stake worth $314.63 million. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 10.5541 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $264.31 million for having 4.8 million shares in hand.
ARROWMARK COLORADO HOLDINGS LLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 8.0282 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 391.0 institutions which have possession in ZD’s shares.
Key Metrics for ZD
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, Ziff Davis Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.48.
