How to buy EVO Payments stock | 25.18

EVO Payments, Inc is a software—infrastructure business based in the US. EVO Payments shares (EVOP) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. EVO Payments employs 2,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$457.2 million.

How to buy shares in EVO Payments

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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 EVO Payments. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: EVOP. 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 EVO Payments 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$25.18, 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 EVO Payments, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of EVO Payments. 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 EVO Payments's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$25.18, which is 13.35% down on its pre-crash value of USD$29.06 and 148.81% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$10.12.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of EVO Payments shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$450.06 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$895.15.

EVO Payments share price

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

EVO Payments shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-19.

Latest market close	USD$25.18
52-week range	USD$10.12 - USD$30
50-day moving average	USD$25.5579
200-day moving average	USD$22.743
Wall St. target price	USD$27.55
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.349

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Is it a good time to buy EVO Payments stock?

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EVO Payments price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $25.18 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-20)	-1.25%
1 month (2020-10-30)	19.51%
3 months (2020-08-28)	-12.96%
6 months (2020-05-29)	13.73%

1 year (2019-11-29)	-10.30%
2 years (2018-11-29)	-3.82%
3 years (2017-11-26)	N/A
5 years (2015-11-26)	N/A

Is EVO Payments under- or over-valued?

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

EVO Payments's EBITDA

EVO Payments's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$105.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a EVO Payments's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

EVO Payments financials

Revenue TTM	USD$457.2 million
Operating margin TTM	3.68%
Gross profit TTM	USD$389.4 million
Return on assets TTM	0.6%
Return on equity TTM	-14.2%
Profit margin	-3.03%
Book value	$-12.955
Market capitalisation	USD$1 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting EVO Payments shares

There are currently 1.5 million EVO Payments shares held short by investors – that's known as EVO Payments's "short interest". This figure is 11.6% up from 1.4 million last month.

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

EVO Payments's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

EVO Payments's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of EVO Payments shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of EVO Payments shares traded daily (recently around 311212.1703854). EVO Payments's SIR currently stands at 4.93. In other words for every 100,000 EVO Payments shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4930 shares are currently held short.

However EVO Payments's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of EVO Payments shares, or, against the total number of tradable EVO Payments shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case EVO Payments's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 EVO Payments shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0379% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable EVO Payments shares, roughly 38 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 EVO Payments.

Find out more about how you can short EVO Payments stock.

EVO Payments share dividends

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

EVO Payments share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, EVO Payments's shares have ranged in value from as little as $10.12 up to $30. 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 EVO Payments's is 1.6631. This would suggest that EVO Payments's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

EVO Payments overview

EVO Payments, Inc. operates as an integrated merchant acquirer and payment processor in the Americas and Europe. Its payment and commerce solutions consist of gateway solutions, online fraud prevention and management reporting, online hosted payments page capabilities, cellphone-based SMS integrated payment collection services, security tokenization and encryption solutions at the point-of-sale, dynamic currency conversion, loyalty offers, and other ancillary solutions. The company also offers processing capabilities for specific industries and provides merchants with recurring billing, multi-currency authorization and settlement, and cross-border processing. In addition, it provides other services that enable through technical integrations with third-party providers. It offers its services to approximately 550,000 merchants. As of December 31, 2019, the company processed approximately 1.0 billion transactions in the Americas, which includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico; and 2.5 billion transactions in Europe consisting of the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as supporting merchants in France, Austria, Italy, the Nordics, and other Central and Eastern European countries. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of EVO Payments is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.868% of EVO Payments shares are held by insiders and 109.179% by institutions.

• How many people work for EVO Payments?

  Latest data suggests 2,400 work at EVO Payments.

• When does the fiscal year end for EVO Payments?

  EVO Payments's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is EVO Payments based?

  EVO Payments's address is: South Tower, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30328

• What is EVO Payments's CUSIP number?

  EVO Payments's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 26927E104