NASDAQ:CPRT - Copart Stock Price, Forecast & News

Copart trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CPRT."

Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPRT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 19th. The business services provider reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, meeting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.65. The business services provider had revenue of $575.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $576.09 million. Copart had a return on equity of 34.06% and a net margin of 32.59%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 18.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.52 earnings per share. View Copart's Earnings History.

Copart is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Copart.

5 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Copart's stock. Their forecasts range from $71.00 to $100.00. On average, they expect Copart's stock price to reach $88.25 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Copart.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Copart in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Copart.

News articles about CPRT stock have trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Copart earned a news sentiment score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Copart.

Copart saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,740,000 shares, a drop of 7.1% from the January 15th total of 6,180,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,710,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 2.8% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Copart's Current Options Chain.

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Copart's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (3.71%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.85%), FMR LLC (2.21%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.14%), US Bancorp DE (1.90%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.52%). Company insiders that own Copart stock include A Jayson Adair, Daniel J Englander, Jeffrey Liaw, Matt Blunt, Steven D Cohan, Thomas N Tryforos and William E Franklin. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Copart.

CPRT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., William Blair Investment Management LLC, US Bancorp DE, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Marshall Wace LLP and Nicholas Company Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Copart company stock in the last year include A Jayson Adair, Matt Blunt, Steven D Cohan, Thomas N Tryforos and William E Franklin. View Insider Buying and Selling for Copart.

CPRT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Madison Asset Management LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ , Point72 Asset Management L.P., Axiom International Investors LLC DE, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, State Street Corp and Geode Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Copart.

Shares of CPRT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CPRT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $97.30.

Copart has a market capitalization of $22.62 billion and generates $2.04 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $591.69 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.25 on an earnings per share basis. Copart employs 7,327 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Copart.

The official website for Copart is http://www.copart.com/.

Copart's mailing address is 14185 DALLAS PARKWAY SUITE 300, DALLAS TX, 75254. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 972-391-5000 or via email at [email protected]