How to buy Drive Shack stock | 1.17

Drive Shack Inc is a leisure business based in the US. Drive Shack shares (DS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Drive Shack employs 4,658 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$239.7 million.

How to buy shares in Drive Shack

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 Drive Shack. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: DS. 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 Drive Shack 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$1.17, 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 Drive Shack, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Drive Shack. 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 Drive Shack's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$1.17, which is 65.79% down on its pre-crash value of USD$3.42 and 36.05% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$0.86.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Drive Shack shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$365.17 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$328.65.

Drive Shack share price

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

Drive Shack shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-14.

Latest market close	USD$1.17
52-week range	USD$1 - USD$4.42
50-day moving average	USD$1.2751
200-day moving average	USD$1.5621
Wall St. target price	USD$4
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.757

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Is it a good time to buy Drive Shack stock?

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Drive Shack price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $1.17 from 2020-10-19

1 week (2020-10-16)	3.54%
1 month (2020-09-25)	-1.68%
3 months (2020-07-24)	-29.09%
6 months (2020-04-24)	9.35%

1 year (2019-10-25)	-71.74%
2 years (2018-10-25)	-78.13%
3 years (2017-10-25)	-67.95%
5 years (2015-10-23)	-76.07%

Is Drive Shack under- or over-valued?

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

Drive Shack's PEG ratio

Drive Shack's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.18. 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 Drive Shack's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Drive Shack financials

Revenue TTM	USD$239.7 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$28.4 million
Return on assets TTM	-7.48%
Return on equity TTM	-159.15%
Profit margin	-35.12%
Book value	$0.329
Market capitalisation	USD$75.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Drive Shack shares

There are currently 2.1 million Drive Shack shares held short by investors – that's known as Drive Shack's "short interest". This figure is 0.7% up from 2.1 million last month.

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

Drive Shack's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Drive Shack's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Drive Shack shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Drive Shack shares traded daily (recently around 821962.3015873). Drive Shack's SIR currently stands at 2.52. In other words for every 100,000 Drive Shack shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2520 shares are currently held short.

However Drive Shack's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Drive Shack shares, or, against the total number of tradable Drive Shack shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Drive Shack's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Drive Shack shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0358% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Drive Shack shares, roughly 36 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 Drive Shack.

Find out more about how you can short Drive Shack stock.

Drive Shack share dividends

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

Have Drive Shack's shares ever split?

Drive Shack's shares were split on a 5575:1000 basis on 7 November 2014. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 5575 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Drive Shack shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 82.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Drive Shack shares which in turn could have impacted Drive Shack's share price.

Drive Shack share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Drive Shack's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1 up to $4.42. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Drive Shack's is 1.5609. This would suggest that Drive Shack's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Drive Shack overview

Drive Shack Inc. owns and operates golf-related leisure and entertainment venue business. It operates through Entertainment Golf Venues and Traditional Golf Properties segments. The Entertainment Golf Venues segment operates entertainment golf venues in Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; and West Palm Beach, Florida. Its entertainment golf venues offer sports and social entertainment services with gaming and golf technology, a chef-inspired menu, and craft cocktails, as well as social events. The Traditional Golf Properties segment owns and operates golf properties in the United States. As of December 31, 2019, it owned, leased, or managed 59 properties in 9 states. Drive Shack Inc. also invests in loans and securities. The company was formerly known as Newcastle Investment Corp. and changed its name to Drive Shack Inc. in December 2016. Drive Shack Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Drive Shack is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 13.37% of Drive Shack shares are held by insiders and 67.055% by institutions.

• How many people work for Drive Shack?

  Latest data suggests 4,658 work at Drive Shack.

• When does the fiscal year end for Drive Shack?

  Drive Shack's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Drive Shack based?

  Drive Shack's address is: 218 West 18th Street, New York, NY, United States, 10011

• What is Drive Shack's ISIN number?

  Drive Shack's international securities identification number is: US65105M1080

• What is Drive Shack's CUSIP number?

  Drive Shack's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 262077100