NYSE:SQ - Square Stock Price, Forecast & News

Square's stock was trading at $62.44 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, SQ stock has decreased by 14.6% and is now trading at $53.34. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

34 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Square in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 15 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Square.

Square is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Square.

Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 26th. The technology company reported $0.23 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.21 by $0.02. The technology company had revenue of $1.31 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.19 billion. Square had a return on equity of 6.57% and a net margin of 7.97%. View Square's earnings history.

Square issued an update on its first quarter 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Tuesday, March, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.3-1.34 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $638.82 million.

34 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Square's stock. Their forecasts range from $37.00 to $105.00. On average, they expect Square's stock price to reach $66.59 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.8% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Square.

News coverage about SQ stock has trended somewhat negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive media 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 negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Square earned a news impact score of -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutSquare.

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

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), Tesla (TSLA), salesforce.com (CRM) 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 a price of $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 Capital World Investors (4.14%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (1.81%), Nikko Asset Management Americas Inc. (1.51%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.37%), Bares Capital Management Inc. (1.21%) and ARK Investment Management LLC (0.87%). Company insiders that own Square stock include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, 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 Jennison Associates LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Alpine Global Management LLC, Moors & Cabot Inc., and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. 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 activity for Square.

SQ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Norges Bank, HMI Capital LLC, Gladstone Capital Management LLP, FIL Ltd, ARK Investment Management LLC, Bares Capital Management Inc., and Renaissance Technologies LLC. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $53.34.

Square has a market capitalization of $23.22 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. 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]