NYSE:SQSquare Stock Price, Forecast & News

Square's stock was trading at $62.44 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SQ shares have increased by 123.2% and is now trading at $139.34.
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41 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Square in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 20 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Square is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 4th 2020.
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Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August, 4th. The technology company reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.23) by $0.41. The technology company had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.13 billion. Square had a negative return on equity of 1.26% and a net margin of 5.15%. Square's revenue was up 63.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.21 EPS.
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41 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Square's shares. Their forecasts range from $37.00 to $190.00. On average, they expect Square's share price to reach $102.74 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 26.3%.
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Headlines about SQ stock have been trending positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Square earned a news sentiment score of 2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the technology company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.
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Square saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 30,260,000 shares, a decrease of 11.1% from the December 15th total of 34,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,930,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.4 days.
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Some companies that are related to Square include Adobe (ADBE), SAP (SAP), salesforce.com (CRM), Oracle (ORCL), Shopify (SHOP), ServiceNow (NOW), Intuit (INTU), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), VMware (VMW), Uber Technologies (UBER), Autodesk (ADSK), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV) and Docusign (DOCU).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Square investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Paypal (PYPL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), salesforce.com (CRM), Walt Disney (DIS) and Shopify (SHOP).

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

Square's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (1.66%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (0.41%), Swiss National Bank (0.32%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.30%), Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado (0.28%) and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.25%). Company insiders that own Square stock include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Brian Grassadonia, Jack Dorsey, Jacqueline D Reses, James Morgan Jr Mckelvey, Mary G Meeker and Sivan Whiteley.
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SQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Banco Santander S.A., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Thornburg Investment Management Inc., Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, and Raymond James & Associates. Company insiders that have sold Square company stock in the last year include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Brian Grassadonia, Jacqueline D Reses, and Sivan Whiteley.
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SQ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including New York State Common Retirement Fund, Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V., Russell Investments Group Ltd., SG Americas Securities LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., State of Michigan Retirement System, Strs Ohio, and First Trust Advisors LP.
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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 $139.34.

Square has a market capitalization of $61.22 billion and generates $4.71 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $375.45 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.17 on an earnings per share basis. Square employs 3,835 workers across the globe.

The official website for Square is 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]