NYSE:SQ - Square Stock Price, Forecast & News

Square trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SQ."

Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The technology company reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.05. The technology company had revenue of $602 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $596.85 million. Square had a positive return on equity of 5.72% and a negative net margin of 1.01%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 39.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.13 EPS. View Square's Earnings History.

Square is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Square.

Square issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.19-0.21 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.25. The company issued revenue guidance of $585-595 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $619.12 million.

32 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Square's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $105.00. On average, they anticipate Square's stock price to reach $73.10 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Square.

32 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Square in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 16 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Square.

Press coverage about SQ stock has trended extremely negative on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Square earned a daily sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Square.

Some companies that are related to Square include Intuit (INTU), Uber Technologies (UBER), VMware (VMW), ServiceNow (NOW), Shopify (SHOP), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Autodesk (ADSK), Electronic Arts (EA), Splunk (SPLK), ANSYS (ANSS), Synopsys (SNPS), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) and Paycom Software (PAYC).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Square investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Netflix (NFLX), Paypal (PYPL), Walt Disney (DIS), salesforce.com (CRM), Visa (V) and Intel (INTC).

(SQ) raised $324 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, November 19th 2015. The company issued 27,000,000 shares at $11.00-$13.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, Stifel, LOYAL3 Securities and SMBC Nikko were co-managers.

Square's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.13%), Alpine Global Management LLC (0.07%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.02%), Westwood Management Corp IL (0.02%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.02%) and Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Square stock include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Hillary B Smith, Jack Dorsey, Jacqueline D Reses, James Morgan Jr Mckelvey, Mary G Meeker, Sarah Friar and Sivan Whiteley. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Square.

SQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Alpine Global Management LLC, State of Michigan Retirement System, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Grassi Investment Management, Premier Asset Management LLC, Westwood Management Corp IL and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI. Company insiders that have sold Square company stock in the last year include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Jack Dorsey and Jacqueline D Reses. View Insider Buying and Selling for Square.

SQ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Sciencast Management LP, CMH Wealth Management LLC, Meridian Wealth Management LLC, Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., Loveless Wealth Management LLC, Red Spruce Capital LLC and Perigon Wealth Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Square.

Shares of SQ 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $71.14.

Square has a market capitalization of $30.57 billion and generates $3.30 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $-38,450,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.02 on an earnings per share basis. Square employs 3,349 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Square.

The official website for Square is http://www.squareup.com/.

Square's mailing address is 1455 MARKET STREET SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94103. The technology company can be reached via phone at 415-375-3176 or via email at [email protected]