How to buy Anaplan stock | 62.42

Anaplan, Inc is a software—infrastructure business based in the US. Anaplan shares (PLAN) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Anaplan employs 1,601 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$398 million.

How to buy shares in Anaplan

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Anaplan. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: PLAN. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Anaplan reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$62.42, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Anaplan, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Anaplan. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Anaplan's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Anaplan's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$62.42, which is 4.09% up on its pre-crash value of USD$59.87 and 139.16% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$26.1.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Anaplan shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$473.66 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,041.79.

Anaplan share price

Use our graph to track the performance of PLAN stocks over time.

Anaplan shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-15.

Latest market close	USD$62.42
52-week range	USD$26.04 - USD$66.1
50-day moving average	USD$60.4386
200-day moving average	USD$47.661
Wall St. target price	USD$64.19
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.536

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Is it a good time to buy Anaplan stock?

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Anaplan price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $62.42 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-22)	6.72%
1 month (2020-09-29)	1.10%
3 months (2020-07-29)	35.37%
6 months (2020-04-29)	50.16%

1 year (2019-10-29)	28.59%
2 years (2018-10-29)	175.71%
3 years (2017-10-25)	N/A
5 years (2015-10-25)	N/A

Anaplan financials

Revenue TTM	USD$398 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$257.2 million
Return on assets TTM	-14.6%
Return on equity TTM	-49.99%
Profit margin	-36.81%
Book value	$2.025
Market capitalisation	USD$8.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Anaplan shares

There are currently 18.3 million Anaplan shares held short by investors – that's known as Anaplan's "short interest". This figure is 20.2% up from 15.2 million last month.

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

Anaplan's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Anaplan's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Anaplan shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Anaplan shares traded daily (recently around 2.1 million). Anaplan's SIR currently stands at 8.59. In other words for every 100,000 Anaplan shares traded daily on the market, roughly 8590 shares are currently held short.

However Anaplan's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Anaplan shares, or, against the total number of tradable Anaplan shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Anaplan's short interest could be expressed as 0.13% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Anaplan shares in existence, roughly 130 shares are currently held short) or 0.1377% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Anaplan shares, roughly 138 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Anaplan.

Find out more about how you can short Anaplan stock.

Anaplan share dividends

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

Anaplan overview

Anaplan, Inc. provides a cloud-based connected planning platform to connect organizations and people. Its platform unites traditionally distinct or disconnected database structures, including relational, columnar, and online analytical processing with in-memory data storage and calculation that is used in connecting various areas of an organization, such as finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, human resources, and operations. The company delivers its application over the Internet as a subscription service using a software-as-a-service model, as well as offers professional services related to implementing and supporting its application. It has operations in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Anaplan is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 7.907% of Anaplan shares are held by insiders and 82.247% by institutions.

• How many people work for Anaplan?

  Latest data suggests 1,601 work at Anaplan.

• When does the fiscal year end for Anaplan?

  Anaplan's fiscal year ends in January.

• Where is Anaplan based?

  Anaplan's address is: 50 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94105

• What is Anaplan's CUSIP number?

  Anaplan's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 03272L108