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 Inc - (NYSE:PPDF) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 20th. The company reported $0.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.30 by $1.00. The company earned $1.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $865.25 million. PPDAI Group had a net margin of 29.39% and a return on equity of 25.97%. PPDAI Group's revenue was down 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted ($2.10) EPS. View PPDAI Group's Earnings History.

PPDAI Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 20th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PPDAI Group.

1 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for PPDAI Group's shares. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $6.00. On average, they expect PPDAI Group's share price to reach $6.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 53.5% 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.

Headlines about PPDF stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. PPDAI Group earned a coverage optimism score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

PPDAI Group saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 491,293 shares, a decrease of 43.9% from the January 15th total of 875,989 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 945,572 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.5 days. Currently, 0.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. 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 a price of $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 many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include 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%), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (0.08%) and Barclays PLC (0.06%).

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 Two Sigma Investments LP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barclays PLC, Discovery Value Fund, Hershey Trust Co., Millennium Management LLC, Geode Capital Management LLC and Northern Trust Corp.

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 $3.91.

PPDAI Group has a market capitalization of $1.18 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]