How to buy Criteo S-A stock | $19.22

Criteo S.A is an advertising agencies business based in the US. Criteo S-A shares (CRTO) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Criteo S-A employs 2,755 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.1 billion.

How to buy shares in Criteo S-A

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3. Search for Criteo S-A. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: CRTO. 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 Criteo S-A 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$19.22, 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 Criteo S-A, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Criteo S-A. 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.

Criteo S-A share price

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Criteo S-A shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$19.22
52-week range	USD$5.89 - USD$20.96
50-day moving average	USD$18.5821
200-day moving average	USD$14.3642
Wall St. target price	USD$17.06
PE ratio	19.0128
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.094

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Is it a good time to buy Criteo S-A stock?

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Criteo S-A price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $19.22 from 2021-01-11

1 week (2021-01-09)	N/A
1 month (2020-12-18)	2.51%
3 months (2020-10-16)	54.88%
6 months (2020-07-17)	51.34%

1 year (2020-01-17)	37.09%
2 years (2019-01-18)	-22.97%
3 years (2018-01-18)	25.37
5 years (2016-01-16)	N/A

Is Criteo S-A under- or over-valued?

Valuing Criteo S-A stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Criteo S-A's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Criteo S-A's P/E ratio

Criteo S-A's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, Criteo S-A shares trade at around 19x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Criteo S-A's PEG ratio

Criteo S-A's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.97. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Criteo S-A's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Criteo S-A's EBITDA

Criteo S-A's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$223.6 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Criteo S-A's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Criteo S-A financials

Revenue TTM	USD$2.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	6.48%
Gross profit TTM	USD$829 million
Return on assets TTM	4.71%
Return on equity TTM	6.68%
Profit margin	3.32%
Book value	$17.12
Market capitalisation	USD$1.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Criteo S-A shares

There are currently 752,204 Criteo S-A shares held short by investors – that's known as Criteo S-A's "short interest". This figure is 25.4% down from 1.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Criteo S-A shares can be evaluated.

Criteo S-A's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Criteo S-A's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Criteo S-A shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Criteo S-A shares traded daily (recently around 429830.85714286). Criteo S-A's SIR currently stands at 1.75. In other words for every 100,000 Criteo S-A shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1750 shares are currently held short.

However Criteo S-A's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Criteo S-A shares, or, against the total number of tradable Criteo S-A shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Criteo S-A's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Criteo S-A shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Criteo S-A shares, roughly 0 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 Criteo S-A.

Find out more about how you can short Criteo S-A stock.

Criteo S-A share dividends

We're not expecting Criteo S-A to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Criteo S-A share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Criteo S-A's shares have ranged in value from as little as $5.89 up to $20.96. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Criteo S-A's is 1.0388. This would suggest that Criteo S-A's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Criteo S-A overview

Criteo S.A., a technology company, provides an advertising platform for the open Internet in France and internationally. The company's Criteo Shopper Graph, which collects clients' proprietary commerce data, such as transaction activity on their digital properties. Its Criteo AI Engine solutions include lookalike finder, recommendation, and predictive bidding algorithms; bidding engine that executes campaigns based on certain objectives set by its clients; dynamic creative optimization+, which assembles customized creative advertising content by optimizing each individual creative component in the advertisement; software systems and processes, which enable data synchronization, storage, and analysis of distributed computing infrastructure in various geographies; and experimentation platform, an offline/online platform to enhance the capabilities and effectiveness of prediction models. The company also provides real-time access to advertising inventory through its publisher partners. In addition, it offers consulting services to companies in distance sales; and business intelligence and analytics services. Further, the company offers Criteo Marketing Solutions that allow commerce companies to address various marketing goals by engaging their consumers with personalized ads across the web, mobile, and offline store environments; and Criteo Retail Media, which allows retailers to generate advertising revenues from consumer brands, and/or to drive sales for themselves, by monetizing their data and audiences through personalized ads, either on their own digital property or on the open Internet. It serves companies in digital retail, travel, and classifieds industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Criteo S-A is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 4.93% of Criteo S-A shares are held by insiders and 89.956% by institutions.

• How many people work for Criteo S-A?

  Latest data suggests 2,755 work at Criteo S-A.

• When does the fiscal year end for Criteo S-A?

  Criteo S-A's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Criteo S-A based?

  Criteo S-A's address is: 32, rue Blanche, Paris, France, 75009

• What is Criteo S-A's ISIN number?

  Criteo S-A's international securities identification number is: US2267181046

• What is Criteo S-A's CUSIP number?

  Criteo S-A's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 226718104