NYSE:PPDF - PPDAI Group Stock Price, News, & Analysis

PPDAI Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PPDF."

PPDAI Group declared a special dividend on Thursday, March 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.0283 per share on Friday, April 26th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 4th. View PPDAI Group's Dividend History.

PPDAI Group Inc - (NYSE:PPDF) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March, 14th. The company reported $0.36 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.12. The company earned $1.21 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.21 billion. PPDAI Group had a return on equity of 25.97% and a net margin of 29.39%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 34.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted ($5.82) EPS. View PPDAI Group's Earnings History.

PPDAI Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 21st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPDAI Group.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for PPDAI Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $6.00. On average, they expect PPDAI Group's stock price to reach $6.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 31.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for PPDAI Group.

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

News stories about PPDF stock have been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPDAI Group earned a daily sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

PPDAI Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 1,450,619 shares, an increase of 167.9% from the February 15th total of 541,455 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,472,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.0 days. Currently, 0.9% of the shares of the company are sold short. View PPDAI Group's Current Options Chain.

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(PPDF) raised $298 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, November 10th 2017. The company issued 17,000,000 shares at $16.00-$19.00 per share. Credit Suisse and Citigroup acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (A Stifel Company) was co-manager.

PPDAI Group's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (1.71%), Hamilton Lane Advisors LLC (0.21%), Regents of The University of California (0.11%), Two Sigma Investments LP (0.10%), Hershey Trust Co. (0.09%) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (0.08%).

PPDF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hamilton Lane Advisors LLC.

PPDF stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Two Sigma Investments LP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barclays PLC, Discovery Value Fund, Hershey Trust Co., Millennium Management LLC and Geode Capital Management LLC.

Shares of PPDF 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 PPDF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $4.58.

PPDAI Group has a market capitalization of $1.38 billion and generates $596.44 million in revenue each year. The company earns $166.44 million in net income (profit) each year or ($1.96) on an earnings per share basis. PPDAI Group employs 5,414 workers across the globe.

The official website for PPDAI Group is http://www.ppdai.com.

PPDAI Group's mailing address is Building G1 No. 999 Dangui Road Pudong New District, Shanghai F4, 201203. The company can be reached via phone at 86-21-8030-3200 or via email at [email protected]