Despegar.com (DESP) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Despegar.com in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" DESP shares.
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3 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Despegar.com's shares. Their DESP share price targets range from $13.00 to $16.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $14.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.5% from the stock's current price.
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Despegar.com's stock was trading at $9.46 at the start of the year. Since then, DESP stock has increased by 20.7% and is now trading at $11.42.
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Despegar.com saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,360,000 shares, an increase of 293.2% from the March 15th total of 345,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 567,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 2.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 16th 2024.
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Despegar.com, Corp. (NYSE:DESP) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 17th. The company reported ($0.38) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.32) by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $83.37 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $74.70 million. Despegar.com had a net margin of 4.01% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 27.86%. During the same period last year, the business earned ($0.41) earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Despegar.com (NYSE:DESP) stock in their portfolio include Amplify Travel Tech ETF (AWAY), Global X MSCI Argentina ETF (ARGT) and Matthews Emerging Markets ex China Active ETF (MEMX).FMQQ The Next Frontier Internet & Ecommerce ETF (FMQQ).

Despegar.com issued an update on its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 14th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $820.0 million-, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $795.8 million.

90 employees have rated Despegar.com Chief Executive Officer Damian Scokin on Glassdoor.com. Damian Scokin has an approval rating of 72% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Despegar.com investors own include Allena Pharmaceuticals (ALNA), Autolus Therapeutics (AUTL), Invesco (IVZ), Sorrento Therapeutics (SRNE), Akari Therapeutics (AKTX), Avadel Pharmaceuticals (AVDL), BorgWarner (BWA) and electroCore (ECOR).

Despegar.com (DESP) raised $314 million in an initial public offering on Wednesday, September 20th 2017. The company issued 12,800,000 shares at $23.00-$26.00 per share. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Itau BBA, UBS Investment Bank, Cowen and KeyBanc Capital Markets were co-managers.

Despegar.com's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Matthews International Capital Management LLC (0.04%) and Harbour Capital Advisors LLC (0.03%).

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