NASDAQ:YY - YY Stock Price, News, & Analysis

YY trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "YY."

YY Inc (NASDAQ:YY) issued its earnings results on Monday, August, 13th. The information services provider reported $2.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.81 by $0.22. The information services provider earned $570.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $544.76 million. YY had a return on equity of 22.08% and a net margin of 14.99%. The company's revenue was up 48.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.53 earnings per share. View YY's Earnings History.

YY is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November, 13th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for YY.

10 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for YY's stock. Their forecasts range from $101.00 to $155.00. On average, they anticipate YY's share price to reach $132.6667 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 77.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for YY.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for YY in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for YY.

YY saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,756,691 shares, an increase of 45.5% from the June 29th total of 1,895,176 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,127,589 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 5.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View YY's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to YY include Autohome (ATHM), RingCentral (RNG), Zendesk (ZEN), Proofpoint (PFPT), CarGurus (CARG), DST Systems (DST), Pegasystems (PEGA), Corelogic (CLGX), Acxiom (ACXM), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Zynga (ZNGA), Bilibili (BILI), Smartsheet (SMAR), Five9 (FIVN) and Yext (YEXT).

Media headlines about YY stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. YY earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.21 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the information services provider an impact score of 45.53 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for YY.

YY's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (3.27%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (2.58%), Morgan Stanley (2.55%), Greenwoods Asset Management Ltd (1.74%), Hillhouse Capital Management Ltd. (1.49%) and FMR LLC (1.40%).

YY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Janus Henderson Group PLC, Greenwoods Asset Management Ltd, BlackRock Inc., Morgan Stanley, Millennium Management LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Krane Funds Advisors LLC and Sei Investments Co..

YY stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Platinum Investment Management Ltd., Pendal Group Ltd, Sylebra HK Co Ltd, Hillhouse Capital Management Ltd., Russell Investments Group Ltd., FMR LLC, Bank of America Corp DE and Greystone Managed Investments Inc..

Shares of YY 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of YY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $74.90.

YY has a market capitalization of $4.65 billion and generates $1.78 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $383.20 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.35 on an earnings per share basis. YY employs 3,355 workers across the globe.

YY's mailing address is Building B-1 North Block of Wanda Plaza No. 79 Wanbo Er Road Nancun Town Panyu District, Guangzhou F4, 511442. The information services provider can be reached via phone at 86-20-2916-2000 or via email at [email protected]