How to buy Glu Mobile stock | 8.75

Glu Mobile Inc is an electronic gaming & multimedia business based in the US. Glu Mobile shares (GLUU) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Glu Mobile employs 715 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$460.5 million.

How to buy shares in Glu Mobile

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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 Glu Mobile. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: GLUU. 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 Glu Mobile 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$8.75, 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 Glu Mobile, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Glu Mobile. 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 Glu Mobile's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$8.75, which is 10.29% up on its pre-crash value of USD$7.85 and 119.85% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$3.98.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Glu Mobile shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$1,033.11 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$1,484.35.

Glu Mobile share price

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Glu Mobile shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-21.

Latest market close	USD$8.75
52-week range	USD$3.98 - USD$10.77
50-day moving average	USD$7.6017
200-day moving average	USD$8.4441
Wall St. target price	USD$11.07
PE ratio	100.8333
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.06

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Glu Mobile price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $8.75 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-18)	0.69%
1 month (2020-10-23)	10.20%
3 months (2020-08-25)	7.49%
6 months (2020-05-22)	-7.21%

1 year (2019-11-25)	64.78%
2 years (2018-11-23)	29.25%
3 years (2017-11-24)	103.02%
5 years (2015-11-25)	158.11%

Is Glu Mobile under- or over-valued?

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

Glu Mobile's P/E ratio

Glu Mobile's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 101x. In other words, Glu Mobile shares trade at around 101x recent earnings.

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

Glu Mobile's PEG ratio

Glu Mobile's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.1886. 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 Glu Mobile's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Glu Mobile's EBITDA

Glu Mobile's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$5.4 million.

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

Glu Mobile financials

Revenue TTM	USD$460.5 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$270.3 million
Return on assets TTM	-2.43%
Return on equity TTM	-4.04%
Profit margin	-2.42%
Book value	$2.138
Market capitalisation	USD$1.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Glu Mobile shares

There are currently 15.6 million Glu Mobile shares held short by investors – that's known as Glu Mobile's "short interest". This figure is 13.1% up from 13.8 million last month.

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

Glu Mobile's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Glu Mobile's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Glu Mobile shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Glu Mobile shares traded daily (recently around 4.5 million). Glu Mobile's SIR currently stands at 3.5. In other words for every 100,000 Glu Mobile shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3500 shares are currently held short.

However Glu Mobile's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Glu Mobile shares, or, against the total number of tradable Glu Mobile shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Glu Mobile's short interest could be expressed as 0.09% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Glu Mobile shares in existence, roughly 90 shares are currently held short) or 0.1205% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Glu Mobile shares, roughly 121 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 Glu Mobile.

Find out more about how you can short Glu Mobile stock.

Glu Mobile share dividends

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

Glu Mobile share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Glu Mobile's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.98 up to $10.77. 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 Glu Mobile's is 0.5758. This would suggest that Glu Mobile's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Glu Mobile overview

Glu Mobile Inc. develops, publishes, and markets a portfolio of free-to-play mobile games for the users of smartphones and tablet devices. It publishes titles primarily in four genres, including lifestyle, casual, mid-core, and sports and outdoors. The company's portfolio of compelling games based on its own intellectual property, such as Cooking Dash, Covet Fashion, Deer Hunter, Design Home, Diner DASH Adventures, and QuizUp, as well as games based on or significantly incorporating third party licensed brands, including Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, MLB Tap Sports Baseball, and Restaurant Dash with Gordon Ramsay, as well as Disney Sorcerer's Arena. It markets, sells, and distributes its games primarily through direct-to-consumer digital storefronts, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and others. The company was formerly known as Sorrent, Inc. and changed its name to Glu Mobile Inc. in May 2005. Glu Mobile Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Glu Mobile is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 15.53% of Glu Mobile shares are held by insiders and 72.291% by institutions.

• How many people work for Glu Mobile?

  Latest data suggests 715 work at Glu Mobile.

• When does the fiscal year end for Glu Mobile?

  Glu Mobile's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Glu Mobile based?

  Glu Mobile's address is: 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94103

• What is Glu Mobile's ISIN number?

  Glu Mobile's international securities identification number is: US3798901068

• What is Glu Mobile's CUSIP number?

  Glu Mobile's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 379890106