Should This Make Qurate Retail Inc (NASDAQ: QRTEA) Investors Sleepless At Night?

Qurate Retail Inc (NASDAQ:QRTEA) price closed higher on Monday, November 20, jumping 6.13% above its previous close.

A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $0.63, with intraday deals fluctuated between $0.62 and $0.6721. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 2.06 while its P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 3.41. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $2.84 and 52-week low of $0.40. The stock added 36.39% on its value in the past month.

Qurate Retail Inc, which has a market valuation of $260.35 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Nov 03, 2023. Analysts tracking QRTEA have forecast the quarterly EPS to grow by 0.13 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit $0.15 for the year 2023 and up to $0.26 for 2024.

On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $3.27 billion, with the likely lows of $3.27 billion and highs of $3.27 billion. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely fall by -7.30% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $10.97 billion for the company’s annual revenue in 2023. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow -9.40% below that which the company brought in 2023.

Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with 1 upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give QRTEA a short term outlook of Hold on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.

Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 2 analysts have assigned QRTEA a recommendation rating as follows: 1 rate it as a Hold; 0 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 1 analyst(s) have tagged the Qurate Retail Inc (QRTEA) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Underweight, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

The overview shows that QRTEA’s price is at present 20.41% off the SMA20 and 20.30% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 61.57, with weekly volatility standing at 9.48%. The indicator jumps to 11.24% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Qurate Retail Inc (NASDAQ:QRTEA)’s beta value is holding at 2.33, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.06. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $0.50-$0.60 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $0.55. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly 25.37% off the estimated low and 10.45% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price rise to $0.55, which is the median consensus price, and at that level QRTEA would be 17.91% from current price.

Turning out attention to how the Qurate Retail Inc stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: QRTEA’s stock is 6.13% on the day and -67.70% in the past 12 months, while Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) traded 0.65%% in the last session and was positioned 56.79% up on its price 12 months ago. Turning out attention to how the Qurate Retail Inc stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: QRTEA’s stock is 6.13% on the day and -67.70% in the past 12 months, while Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) traded 0.65%% in the last session and was positioned 56.79% up on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with Walmart Inc. (WMT) whose stock price was down -0.03%% in the last trading session, and has flourished 2.38% over the past year. Also, Liberty Broadband Corp. Cl A (LBRDA) showed up trend of 1.14%% while its price kept floating at -1.03% over the past year. As for Qurate Retail Inc, the P/E ratio stands at 3.41 lower than that of Amazon.com Inc.’s at 76.30 and Walmart Inc.’s 25.78. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has rallied 0.74% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a positive session on the day with 0.58%.

An analysis of the Qurate Retail Inc (NASDAQ:QRTEA) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 6.62 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 5.59 million.

Current records show that the company has 374.39M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 10.31% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 69.54%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Oct 30, 2023, stood at 11.4 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 3.3. From this we can glean that short interest is 2.93% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in October fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 13.64 million. But the -58.98% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.