ExlService Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:EXLS) does about 169.44K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 209664 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 5.61B USD. Its current market price is $170.53, marking a decrease of -0.02% compared to the previous close of $170.57. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $191.18 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $112.14. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $171.10 and a low of $169.20.
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ExlService Holdings Inc. (EXLS) has a 20-day trading average at $171.58 and the current price is -10.80% off the 52-week high compared with 52.07% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $171.88 and its 200-day simple moving average is $163.08. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.22%, which increases to 2.36% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 47.23 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $184.75, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 7.7% over the period. The median price target is 10.95% away from the current levels at $191.50.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on July 29, 2022 when Needham upgraded the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $190. Citigroup downgraded the stock to “Sell” from Neutral on July 20, 2022 at a price target of $150-$134. BofA Securities upgraded its price target at $132-$143.
The current price level is -0.58%, -0.85%, and 4.67% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the EXLS price moving above the 50-day SMA on February 17. ExlService Holdings Inc. (EXLS) stock is down -1.52% over the week and 2.77% over the past month. Its price is 0.65% year-to-date and 42.41% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/29/2022, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $1.54 above consensus estimates by $0.13. EXLS’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 22.80% this year and 11.60% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $362.89 million, which analysts say will come at $1.4 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.58 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $360.41 million.
Its 12-month price target is $191.50. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 7.7 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $155.00, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $200.00.
Outstanding shares total 33.24M with insiders holding 3.55% of the shares and institutional holders owning 98.71% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 11.70% and return on equity of 20.00%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 41.42 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 25.74. The beta has a value of 1.01. Price to book ratio is 8.04 and price to sales ratio is 4.21.
Mackenzie US Mid Cap Growth Class isn’t the only investment manager who changed stakes and is followed by iShares Core S&P Mid Cap ETF, which sold off 1950.0 shares to end up with 1,027,728 shares worth $175.33 million. Vanguard Total Stock Market Index raise their holdings by 0.62% in the company over the course of the most recent quarter. It now holds a 2.91% position in ExlService Holdings Inc. thanks to 0.96 million shares amounting to $164.07 million.
