Analysts at Robert W. Baird initiated coverage on j2 Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM) stock, starting the company at Outperform and a price target of $83.00. As a means of comparison, a number of other analysts have commented on the company recently, and the company has earned a consensus one-year price target of $87.50, $67.83. j2 Global Inc.stock has a 52-week high of $84.15.
Stock suffered moderate losses yesterday across the board on the heels of Monday’s gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 49 points, or 0.26 percent, to close at 18,454.The S&P 500 shed 4 points, or 0.20 percent, to finish at 2,176.The Nasdaq lost 9 points, or 0.18 percent, to close at 5,223.
NYMEX crude oil futures lost 1.21 percent to $46.41 while Brent contracts shed 1.64 percent and were last trading at $48.45.
Stock prices often move to the upside on recommendations and new price targets of professional brokerage firms.
Shares of j2 Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM) opened at $67.83 and traded in a range between, $67.51 and $68.25 yesterday, and last traded at $68.11, which represents a change of $ 0.31 over the previous closing price.
j2 Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM) now has a market cap of 3.27B
The stocks average daily volume is 406,900 shares out of a total float 45,784,000 of and some 196,290 shares crossed the trading desk yesterday, 105 percent lower than normal. Look for trading volume to pick up in the coming days as investors often use swings in trading volume to identify heavy volume accumulation or distribution by institutional investors.
While increased trading for one day will not mean much, however, a trend of heavy trading volume on the buy side over a period of days or weeks sends a positive signal to market traders that institutions may be moving in, so institutional sponsorship is very important.
Institutional sponsorship simply refers to ownership of a stock by mutual funds, banks, pension funds and other large institutions.
These instituitional investors have teams of analysts researching thousands of stocks, so it is good confirmation to see them taking a postion in a stock you’re researching.
By tracking the activity of these professional investors—and the moving averages they affect—it allows for traders to make more effective decisions on trades.
With that in mind j2 Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM) now has a 50-day MA is $67.04 and 200-day MA is $65.38, and it has traded in a 52-week range between $55.43 – 84.15 and today’s last price is -19.06 percent off the 52 week high.
Earnings growth is an important factor toresearch when buying stocks and investors look for companies that have grown their earnings at least 25% or more for the past 3 years.
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