Why Are People Buying SOFI Shares?

Shares of SoFi Technologies rose to $9.68 during today's afternoon trading session. Despite the 3.5% change, the mid-cap Closed End Fund company still trades 6.09% above its average analyst target price of $9.12. So there may be further downside for the Closed End Fund stock. SoFi Technologies has target prices ranging from $3.0 to $15.0 per share, and its average rating is hold.

The stock has an unusually large proportion of its shares sold short at 15.9%, and a short ratio of 3.08. Since 3.93% of the company's shares are owned by insiders, we can infer that there is a degree of alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that only a small number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 39.2% of SoFi Technologies's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in SoFi Technologies

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2023-09-30 Vanguard Group Inc 8% 76,402,753 $739,196,649
2023-09-30 Blackrock Inc. 4% 40,771,997 $394,469,078
2023-09-30 Silver Lake Group, LLC 3% 31,154,165 $301,416,552
2023-09-30 Two Sigma Investments, LP 2% 15,163,244 $146,704,388
2023-09-30 State Street Corporation 2% 14,970,515 $144,839,735
2023-09-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 1% 14,264,817 $138,012,107
2023-09-30 Two Sigma Advisers, LP 1% 14,170,900 $137,103,460
2022-12-31 Norges Bank Investment Management 1% 9,717,705 $94,018,797
2023-09-30 Morgan Stanley 1% 8,814,745 $85,282,659
2023-09-30 Goldman Sachs Group Inc 1% 7,050,104 $68,209,757

Besides an analyst consensus of little upside potential, other market factors point to there being negative market sentiment on SoFi Technologies.

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