Criteo Investors Should Focus on This

By Scott Lee • Wednesday, September 13 12:11 • Permanent Link

With gains of 5.4%, Criteo was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $30.0 and have logged a 0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Criteo has moved 6.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
CRTO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -24.49% away from its mean target price of $39.73 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.1
Criteo has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 300.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.12 and its forward P/E ratio is 9.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.66 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Criteo is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.33 and an average P/B of 3.12
The company has a free cash flow of $205.77 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Criteo S.A., a technology company, provides marketing and monetization services on the open Internet in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company's Criteo Shopper Graph, which derives clients' proprietary commerce data, such as transaction activity on their digital properties. It also offers Criteo AI Engine solutions, including lookalike finder, recommendation, and predictive bidding algorithms; dynamic creative optimization+, which assembles customized creative advertising content by optimizing each individual creative component in the advertisement; software systems and processes, which enable data synchronization, storage, and analysis of distributed computing infrastructure in various geographies, as well as fast data collection and retrieval using multi-layered caching infrastructure; and experimentation platform, an offline/online testing platform to enhance the capabilities and effectiveness of prediction models. In addition, the company provides Criteo Marketing Solutions that allow commerce companies to address various marketing goals by engaging their consumers with personalized ads across the web, mobile, and offline store environments; and Criteo Retail Media solutions, which allows retailers to generate advertising revenues from consumer brands, and/or to drive sales for themselves, by monetizing their data and audiences through personalized ads, either on their own digital property or on the open Internet. Further, it offers real-time advertising technology and trading infrastructure, delivering advanced media buying, selling, and packaging capabilities for media owners, agencies, performance advertisers, and third-party AdTech platforms. It serves companies in digital retail, travel, and classifieds industries. Criteo S.A. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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