Analyzing Roblox's Fundamentals Before Investing

By Tamara Parker • Friday, February 28 15:10 • Permanent Link

With gains of 5.0%, Roblox was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $63.43 and have logged a 1.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Roblox has moved 46.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 14.1%
RBLX has an average analyst rating of buy and is -4.29% away from its mean target price of $66.28 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-1.44
Roblox has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -44.0 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-1.39 and its forward P/E ratio is -45.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 191.05 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Roblox is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 30.01 and an average P/B of 3.91
The company has a free cash flow of $740.39 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Roblox Corporation operates an immersive platform for connection and communication in the United States and internationally. It offers Roblox Client, an application that allows users to explore 3D experience; Roblox Studio, a free toolset that allows developers and creators to build, publish, and operate 3D experiences and other content; and Roblox Cloud, which provides services and infrastructure that power the platform. Roblox Corporation was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

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