How Smart Investors Look at Series (XYZ).

By Harris Dyer • Tuesday, November 04 10:08 • Permanent Link

Series logged a -1.3% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $73.37 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -1.0%. XYZ's trading volume is 946,433 compared to the stock's average volume of 6,465,023.

Series trades -17.1% away from its average analyst target price of $88.51 per share. The 38 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $58.0 to $105.0, and on average have given Series a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying XYZ should be aware of the facts below:

Series's current price is 25.3% above its Graham number of $58.56, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Series has moved 2.7% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 18.5%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 4.68, Series has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 15.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 2.02 compared to its sector average of 4.19
Block, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, builds ecosystems focused on commerce and financial products and services in the United States and internationally.
Based in Oakland, the company has 12,000 full time employees and a market cap of $44.73 Billion.

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