It's Time For a Quick Look at QuantumScape's Fundamentals.

By Harris Dyer • Friday, October 17 10:03 • Permanent Link

With gains of 2.4%, QuantumScape was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $15.83 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:

QuantumScape has moved 192.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 13.0%
QS has an average analyst rating of hold and is 131.09% away from its mean target price of $6.85 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.86
QuantumScape has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -18.4 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.84 and its forward P/E ratio is -18.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 8.73 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
QuantumScape is part of the Consumer Cyclical sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.93 and an average P/B of 2.93
The company has a free cash flow of $-151011744, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
QuantumScape Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, focuses on the development and commercialization of solid-state lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles and other applications in the United States. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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