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) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 20th. The company reported $0.30 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.30 by $1.00. The company had revenue of $1.08 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $865.25 million. PPDAI Group had a return on equity of 25.97% and a net margin of 29.39%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned ($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 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for PPDAI Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $6.00. On average, they anticipate PPDAI Group's stock 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.

News articles about PPDF stock have trended negative on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PPDAI Group earned a coverage optimism score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

PPDAI Group saw a decrease in short interest during 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 short-interest ratio is presently 0.5 days. Approximately 0.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View PPDAI Group's Current Options Chain.

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(PPDF) raised $298 million in an 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 purchased 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]