How to buy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company stock | $3.71

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company is an education & training services business based in the US. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares (HMHC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company employs 3,300 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.1 billion.

How to buy shares in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company

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3. Search for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: HMHC. 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 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company 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$3.71, 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 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company. 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.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company share price

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$3.71
52-week range	USD$1.03 - USD$6.85
50-day moving average	USD$3.1389
200-day moving average	USD$2.5101
Wall St. target price	USD$3.59
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.031

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $3.71 from 2021-01-11

1 week (2021-01-08)	1.92%
1 month (2020-12-15)	4.51%
3 months (2020-10-15)	29.27%
6 months (2020-07-15)	108.43%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-39.97%
2 years (2019-01-15)	-63.56%
3 years (2018-01-12)	9.15
5 years (2016-01-15)	17.2

Is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company under- or over-valued?

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

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's EBITDA

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$131.4 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company financials

Revenue TTM	USD$1.1 billion
Gross profit TTM	USD$573.1 million
Return on assets TTM	-3.91%
Return on equity TTM	-120.41%
Profit margin	-48.8%
Book value	$1.431
Market capitalisation	USD$419.1 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares

There are currently 3.7 million Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's "short interest". This figure is 20.3% down from 4.6 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares can be evaluated.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares traded daily (recently around 2.5 million). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's SIR currently stands at 1.47. In other words for every 100,000 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1470 shares are currently held short.

However Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0412% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares, roughly 41 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 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company.

Find out more about how you can short Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company stock.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company share dividends

We're not expecting Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's shares ever split?

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's shares were split on a 1:2 basis on 22 October 2013. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 100% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares which in turn could have impacted Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's share price.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.03 up to $6.85. 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 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's is 1.3197. This would suggest that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company overview

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company, a learning company, provides curriculum, supplemental, intervention solutions, and professional learning services worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Education and HMH Books & Media. The Education segment provides educational products, technology platforms, and services, including print and digital content in the form of textbooks, digital courseware, instructional aids, educational assessment, and intervention solutions for students. The Trade Publishing segment primarily develops, markets, and sells consumer books in print and digital formats, as well as licenses book rights to other publishers and electronic businesses; and reference materials, such as fiction and non-fiction books, dictionaries, and other reference works to schools, colleges, libraries, office supply distributors, and other businesses. This segment distributes products through retail stores comprising physical and online, and wholesalers. The company was formerly known as HMH Holdings (Delaware), Inc. and changed its name to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company in October 2013. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.793% of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company shares are held by insiders and 72.872% by institutions.

• How many people work for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company?

  Latest data suggests 3,300 work at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company.

• When does the fiscal year end for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company?

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company based?

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's address is: 125 High Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02110

• What is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's ISIN number?

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's international securities identification number is: US44157R1095

• What is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's CUSIP number?

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 44157R109