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

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

YY Inc (NASDAQ:YY) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August, 13th. The information services provider reported $2.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' 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 net margin of 23.00% and a return on equity of 27.41%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 48.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.53 EPS. 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 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for YY's shares. Their predictions range from $101.00 to $155.00. On average, they anticipate YY's share price to reach $132.6667 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 80.2% 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 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 trading volume of 1,127,589 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Approximately 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 Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Autohome (ATHM), RingCentral (RNG), Zendesk (ZEN), Proofpoint (PFPT), CarGurus (CARG), DST Systems (DST), Pegasystems (PEGA), Corelogic (CLGX), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Acxiom (ACXM), Zynga (ZNGA), Bilibili (BILI), Smartsheet (SMAR) and Five9 (FIVN).

Media coverage about YY stock has trended somewhat negative recently, Accern reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. YY earned a media and rumor sentiment score of -0.07 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the information services provider an impact score of 43.64 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for YY.

YY's stock is owned by many different 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 $73.64.

YY has a market capitalization of $5.61 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]