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How to buy Affirm stock

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Buy Affirm (AFRM)
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Popular "buy now, pay later" installment loans provider Affirm completed its initial public offering on Wednesday, January 13. The stock trades on the Nasdaq under "AFRM."

How to buy shares in Affirm

  1. Compare share trading platforms. Use our comparison table to help you find a platform that fits you.
  2. Open your brokerage account. Complete an application with your details.
  3. Confirm your payment details. Fund your account.
  4. Research the stock. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol – AFRM – and research it before deciding if it's a good investment for you.
  5. Purchase now or later. Buy your desired number of shares with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until the stock reaches a desired price.
  6. Check in on your investment. Optimize your portfolio by tracking your stock.

What's in this guide?

  1. AFRM shares summary
  2. Compare share dealing platforms
  3. Is AFRM stock a buy or sell?
  4. Stock performance over time
  5. Can I short AFRM shares?
  6. Affirm's financials
  7. Does Affirm pay a dividend?
  8. Other common questions

Affirm share price

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Affirm shares at a glance

Information last updated 2021-04-30.
52-week range$49.00 - $146.90
50-day moving average $72.96
200-day moving average $90.07
Wall St. target price$109.10
PE ratio N/A
Dividend yield N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM) N/A

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Is it a good time to buy Affirm stock?

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Technical Analysis of Affirm Holdings, Inc by TradingView

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Affirm financials

Revenue TTM $669.6 million
Gross profit TTM $160.9 million
Return on assets TTM 0%
Return on equity TTM 0%
Profit margin -14.58%
Book value N/A
Market capitalisation $18.1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Affirm shares

There are currently 8.9 million Affirm shares held short by investors – that's known as Affirm's "short interest". This figure is 12.4% up from 7.9 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Affirm shares can be evaluated.

Affirm's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Affirm's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Affirm shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Affirm shares traded daily (recently around 1.8 million). Affirm's SIR currently stands at 4.79. In other words for every 100,000 Affirm shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4790 shares are currently held short.

To gain some more context, you can compare Affirm's short interest ratio against those of similar companies.

However Affirm's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Affirm shares, or, against the total number of tradable Affirm shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Affirm's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Affirm shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0771% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Affirm shares, roughly 77 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Affirm.

Find out more about how you can short Affirm stock.

Affirm share dividends

We're not expecting Affirm to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

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Affirm overview

Affirm Holdings, Inc. operates a platform for digital and mobile-first commerce in the United States and Canada. The company's platform includes point-of-sale payment solution for consumers, merchant commerce solutions, and a consumer-focused app. Its payments network and partnership with an originating bank, enables consumers to pay for a purchase over time with terms ranging from one to forty-eight months. As of September 30, 2020, the company had approximately 6,500 merchants integrated on its platform covering small businesses, large enterprises, direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar stores, and companies. Its merchants represent a range of industries, including sporting goods and outdoors, furniture and homewares, travel, apparel, accessories, consumer electronics, and jewelry. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

  1. Technical analysis graphic from TradingView, https://uk.tradingview.com Stock prices and other date from EOD Historical Data

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