NYSE:SQ Square Stock Forecast, Price & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Square, Inc. Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add $142.22 -3.42 (-2.35 %) (As of 09/18/2020 02:52 PM ET) Add Compare Share Today's Range$141.70Now: $142.22▼$149.1350-Day Range$128.55MA: $146.31▼$166.6652-Week Range$32.33Now: $142.22▼$170.61Volume236,936 shsAverage Volume13.29 million shsMarket Capitalization$63.08 billionP/E Ratio229.39Dividend YieldN/ABeta2.72 ProfileAnalyst RatingsChartCompetitorsEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsShort InterestSocial Media Square, Inc. provides payment and point-of-sale solutions in the United States and internationally. The company's commerce ecosystem includes point-of-sale software and hardware that enables sellers to turn mobile and computing devices into payment and point-of-sale solutions. It offers hardware products, including Magstripe reader, which enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Contactless and chip reader that accepts EMV® chip cards and Near Field Communication payments; Chip card reader, which accepts EMV® chip cards and enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Square Stand, which enables an iPad to be used as a payment terminal or full point of sale solution; and Square Register that combines its hardware, point-of-sale software, and payments technology, as well as managed payments solutions. The company also provides Square Point of Sale software; Cash App, which provides access to the financial system, allowing customers to electronically send, store, and spend money; Caviar, a food ordering platform for restaurants to offer food ordering, pickup and delivery, to their customers; and Square Capital that facilitates loans to sellers based on real-time payment and point-of-sale data. Square, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.Read More Beat the Market (BTM) Rank™ 2.2 Analyst's Opinion Consensus RatingSquare has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.33, and is based on 17 buy ratings, 19 hold ratings, and 4 sell ratings.Price Target Upside/DownsideAccording to analysts' consensus price target of $107.55, Square has a forecasted downside of 24.9% from its current price of $143.14.Amount of Analyst CoverageSquare has been the subject of 19 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock. Previous Next 2.9 Community Rank Outperform VotesSquare has received 1,204 “outperform” votes. (Add your “outperform” vote.)Underperform VotesSquare has received 898 “underperform” votes. (Add your “underperform” vote.)Community SentimentSquare has received 57.28% “outperform” votes from our community.MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Square and other stocks. Vote “Outperform” if you believe SQ will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote “Underperform” if you believe SQ will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Previous Next 0.0 Dividend Strength Dividend YieldSquare does not currently pay a dividend.Dividend GrowthSquare does not have a long track record of dividend growth. Previous Next 1.0 Company Ownership Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Square insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $66,984,971.00 in company stock.Percentage Held by InsidersOnly 19.90% of the stock of Square is held by insiders.Percentage Held by Institutions66.29% of the stock of Square is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company. Previous Next 0.6 Earnings and Valuation Earnings GrowthEarnings for Square are expected to grow in the coming year, from ($0.27) to $0.28 per share.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Square is 230.87, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 18.99.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of Square is 230.87, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 62.41.Price to Book Value per Share RatioSquare has a P/B Ratio of 36.15. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities. Previous Next Analyst Opinion: 2.2Community Rank: 2.9Dividend Strength: 0.0Insider Behavior: 1.0Valuation: 0.6 5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -Overall Beat the Market Rank™1.34 out of 5 stars Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NYSE Industry Prepackaged software Sub-IndustryN/A SectorComputer and Technology Current SymbolNYSE:SQ Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIK1512673 Webwww.squareup.com Phone415-375-3176Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio1.12 Current Ratio1.70 Quick Ratio1.70Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio229.39 Forward P/E RatioN/A P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$4.71 billion Price / Sales13.38 Cash Flow$0.38 per share Price / Cash Flow369.71 Book Value$3.96 per share Price / Book35.91Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$0.17 Net Income$375.45 million Net Margins5.15% Return on Equity-1.20% Return on Assets-0.36%Miscellaneous Employees3,835 Outstanding Shares443,532,000Market Cap$63.08 billion Next Earnings Date11/4/2020 (Estimated) OptionableOptionable $142.22 -3.42 (-2.35 %) (As of 09/18/2020 02:52 PM ET) 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | Advanced Chart Receive SQ News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for SQ and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Square (NYSE:SQ) Frequently Asked Questions How has Square's stock been impacted by Coronavirus? 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 shares have increased by 127.2% and is now trading at $141.85. View which stocks have been most impacted by COVID-19. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Square? 40 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Square in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 19 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Square. When is Square's next earnings date? Square is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Square. How were Square's earnings last quarter? Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) released its earnings results on Tuesday, August, 4th. The technology company reported $0.18 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates 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 1.20% and a net margin of 5.15%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 63.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.21 earnings per share. View Square's earnings history. What price target have analysts set for SQ? 40 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Square's shares. Their forecasts range from $37.00 to $190.00. On average, they expect Square's share price to reach $107.55 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 24.2%. View analysts' price targets for Square. Are investors shorting Square? Square saw a decline in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 28,320,000 shares, a decline of 11.6% from the June 15th total of 32,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 14,670,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. View Square's Short Interest. Who are some of Square's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Square include Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), SAP (SAP), Oracle (ORCL), Shopify (SHOP), ServiceNow (NOW), Intuit (INTU), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), VMware (VMW), Autodesk (ADSK), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Electronic Arts (EA), Docusign (DOCU) and Twilio (TWLO). View all competitors. What other stocks do shareholders of Square own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Square investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Tesla (TSLA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Paypal (PYPL), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU), salesforce.com (CRM), Walt Disney (DIS) and Shopify (SHOP). Who are Square's key executives? Square's management team includes the following people: Mr. Jack Dorsey, Chairman, Pres & CEO (Age 41)Mr. James Morgan McKelvey Jr., Co-Founder (Age 53)Ms. Sarah Friar, Chief Financial Officer (Age 45)Ms. Hillary B. Smith, Gen. Counsel and Corp. Sec. (Age 51)Ms. Alyssa Henry, Seller Lead (Age 48) When did Square IPO? (SQ) raised $324 million in an initial public offering (IPO) 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. What is Square's stock symbol? Square trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SQ." Who are Square's major shareholders? Square's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (6.30%), Fir Tree Capital Management LP (1.80%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (1.66%), Coatue Management LLC (0.98%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.87%) and Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (0.41%). 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, Paul Deighton and Sivan Whiteley. View institutional ownership trends for Square. Which institutional investors are selling Square stock? SQ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Banco Santander S.A., Stephens Investment Management Group LLC, Nordea Investment Management AB, Vanguard Group Inc., and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.. Company insiders that have sold Square company stock in the last year include Ajmere Dale, Alyssa Henry, Brian Grassadonia, Jacqueline D Reses, James Morgan Jr Mckelvey, Paul Deighton, and Sivan Whiteley. View insider buying and selling activity for Square. Which institutional investors are buying Square stock? SQ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fir Tree Capital Management LP, Softbank Group Corp, Coatue Management LLC, Third Point LLC, Holocene Advisors LP, New York State Common Retirement Fund, Hyperion Asset Management Ltd, and Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V.. View insider buying and selling activity for Square. How do I buy shares of 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. What is Square's stock price today? One share of SQ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $141.85. How big of a company is Square? Square has a market capitalization of $62.92 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. What is Square's official website? The official website for Square is www.squareup.com. How can I contact Square? Square's mailing address is 1455 MARKET STREET SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94103. 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