How to buy Extreme Networks stock | 5.3

Extreme Networks, Inc is a communication equipment business based in the US. Extreme Networks shares (EXTR) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Extreme Networks employs 2,584 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$948 million.

How to buy shares in Extreme Networks

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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 Extreme Networks. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: EXTR. 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 Extreme Networks 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$5.3, 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 Extreme Networks, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Extreme Networks. 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 Extreme Networks's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$5.3, which is 15.74% down on its pre-crash value of USD$6.29 and 270.63% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$1.43.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Extreme Networks shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$426.63 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$904.45.

Extreme Networks share price

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

Extreme Networks shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$5.3
52-week range	USD$1.43 - USD$8
50-day moving average	USD$4.1512
200-day moving average	USD$3.9797
Wall St. target price	USD$6.9
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.22

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Extreme Networks price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $5.3 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-18)	-10.32%
1 month (2020-10-26)	14.72%
3 months (2020-08-25)	17.52%
6 months (2020-05-22)	59.64%

1 year (2019-11-25)	-23.85%
2 years (2018-11-23)	-14.24%
3 years (2017-11-24)	-61.34%
5 years (2015-11-25)	22.40%

Is Extreme Networks under- or over-valued?

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

Extreme Networks's PEG ratio

Extreme Networks's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.88. 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 Extreme Networks's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Extreme Networks's EBITDA

Extreme Networks's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$26.2 million.

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

Extreme Networks financials

Revenue TTM	USD$948 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$525 million
Return on assets TTM	-2.71%
Return on equity TTM	-209%
Profit margin	-13.38%
Book value	$0.045
Market capitalisation	USD$547.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Extreme Networks shares

There are currently 4.8 million Extreme Networks shares held short by investors – that's known as Extreme Networks's "short interest". This figure is 25.2% up from 3.8 million last month.

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

Extreme Networks's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Extreme Networks's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Extreme Networks shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Extreme Networks shares traded daily (recently around 1.1 million). Extreme Networks's SIR currently stands at 4.14. In other words for every 100,000 Extreme Networks shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4140 shares are currently held short.

However Extreme Networks's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Extreme Networks shares, or, against the total number of tradable Extreme Networks shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Extreme Networks's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Extreme Networks shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0454% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Extreme Networks shares, roughly 45 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 Extreme Networks.

Find out more about how you can short Extreme Networks stock.

Extreme Networks share dividends

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

Have Extreme Networks's shares ever split?

Extreme Networks's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 25 August 2000. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Extreme Networks shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Extreme Networks shares which in turn could have impacted Extreme Networks's share price.

Extreme Networks share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Extreme Networks's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.43 up to $8. 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 Extreme Networks's is 1.8996. This would suggest that Extreme Networks's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Extreme Networks overview

Extreme Networks, Inc. provides software-driven networking solutions for enterprise, data center, and service provider customers worldwide. It designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment; and develops software for network management, policy, analytics, security, and access controls. The company offers ExtremeSwitching portfolio that includes access edge products that offer physical presentations along with options to deliver Ethernet or convergence-friendly Power-over-Ethernet (POE), including high-power universal POE; aggregation/core switches designed to address aggregation, top-of-rack, and campus core environments; and wireless access point products. It also provides ExtremeNAC, a network access control solution that allows the enterprises to unify the security of their wired and wireless networks with visibility and control over users, devices, and applications; and ExtremeAnalytics, a network-powered application analytics and optimization solution, which captures, aggregates, analyses, correlates, and reports network data that enables in decision making and enhancing business performance. In addition, the company offers ExtremeCloud, a wired and wireless cloud network management solution, which offers visibility and control over users, devices, and applications; ExtremeRouting, a cloud-managed access across distributed environment that provides throughput, application-aware traffic shaping and monitoring, end-to-end service, and link prioritization; and an open northbound API for customized integrations to key enterprise platforms. It markets and sells its products through distributors, resellers, and field sales organizations to enterprises and organizations in the education, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, transportation and logistics, government agencies, private cloud data centers, universities, and stadiums. Extreme Networks, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Extreme Networks is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.165% of Extreme Networks shares are held by insiders and 85.658% by institutions.

• How many people work for Extreme Networks?

  Latest data suggests 2,584 work at Extreme Networks.

• When does the fiscal year end for Extreme Networks?

  Extreme Networks's fiscal year ends in June.

• Where is Extreme Networks based?

  Extreme Networks's address is: 6480 Via del Oro, San Jose, CA, United States, 95119

• What is Extreme Networks's ISIN number?

  Extreme Networks's international securities identification number is: US30226D1063

• What is Extreme Networks's CUSIP number?

  Extreme Networks's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 30226D106