Applied Digital Co. (NASDAQ:APLD – Get Free Report)’s share price dropped 3% during mid-day trading on Wednesday after Cantor Fitzgerald lowered their price target on the stock from $15.00 to $14.00. Cantor Fitzgerald currently has an overweight rating on the stock. Applied Digital traded as low as $8.11 and last traded at $8.28. Approximately 16,873,491 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 21% from the average daily volume of 21,458,602 shares. The stock had previously closed at $8.54.
Several other equities research analysts have also weighed in on APLD. HC Wainwright upped their target price on Applied Digital from $5.00 to $10.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 16th. Craig Hallum boosted their price target on Applied Digital from $10.00 to $12.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 10th. Roth Mkm restated a “buy” rating and issued a $10.00 price objective on shares of Applied Digital in a research note on Thursday, October 10th. Lake Street Capital raised their target price on Applied Digital from $7.00 to $11.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and issued a $11.00 price target on shares of Applied Digital in a research report on Wednesday. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $11.29.
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Institutional Trading of Applied Digital
Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. SeaCrest Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in Applied Digital during the 4th quarter worth about $586,000. Gunderson Capital Management Inc. bought a new stake in Applied Digital in the 4th quarter valued at about $83,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its holdings in shares of Applied Digital by 18.4% during the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 56,355 shares of the company’s stock valued at $465,000 after acquiring an additional 8,774 shares in the last quarter. Tidal Investments LLC acquired a new position in Applied Digital during the third quarter worth $95,000. Finally, Virtu Financial LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Applied Digital in the 3rd quarter worth about $2,030,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.67% of the company’s stock.
Applied Digital Trading Up 7.3 %
The company has a quick ratio of 0.22, a current ratio of 0.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $8.79 and a 200 day moving average price of $6.96. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.90 billion, a PE ratio of -7.68 and a beta of 4.78.
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January 14th. The company reported ($0.06) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.14) by $0.08. Applied Digital had a negative net margin of 74.95% and a negative return on equity of 88.87%. The firm had revenue of $63.87 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $62.41 million. During the same quarter last year, the business posted ($0.05) EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 51.3% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts expect that Applied Digital Co. will post -0.4 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Applied Digital Company Profile
Applied Digital Corporation designs, develops, and operates datacenters in North America. Its datacenters provide digital infrastructure solutions to the high-performance computing industry. The company also provides artificial intelligence cloud services, high performance computing datacenter hosting, and crypto datacenter hosting services.
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