Shopify Stock Is Skyrocketing - Is It Too Hot to Handle?

By Blake Campbell • Tuesday, October 04 15:53 • Permanent Link

We're taking a closer look at Shopify, whose shares are on fire today. So far, its shares moved 12.8% compared to 2.9% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:

Shopify Inc., a commerce company, provides a commerce platform and services in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
Shopify has moved -78.9% over the last year compared to -15.4% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -63.6%
SHOP has an average analyst rating of hold and is -60.99% away from its mean target price of $80.3 per share
Its trailing 12 month price to earnings (Eps) is $0.13 per share
Shopify has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 241.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward 12 month price to earnings (Eps) is $0.13 per share and its forward P/E ratio is -1044.2
SHOP has a Price to Earnings Growth ratio of 2.62, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.5 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Shopify is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 26.5 and an average P/B of 5.57
Shopify has on average reported free cash flows of $208,023,750.00 over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 952.8%
SHOP's gross profit margins have averaged 54.2 % over the last four years, during which time they had a growth rate of -1.0 % and a coefficient of variability of 2.4 %.

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