How to buy Pluralsight stock | 18.76

Pluralsight, Inc is a software—application business based in the US. Pluralsight shares (PS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Pluralsight employs 1,600 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$358.8 million.

How to buy shares in Pluralsight

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 Pluralsight. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: PS. 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 Pluralsight 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$18.76, 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 Pluralsight, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Pluralsight. 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 Pluralsight's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$18.76, which is 2.19% down on its pre-crash value of USD$19.18 and 184.67% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$6.59.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Pluralsight shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$442.05 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$953.20.

Pluralsight share price

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

Pluralsight shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-21.

Latest market close	USD$18.76
52-week range	USD$6.59 - USD$22.69
50-day moving average	USD$17.6299
200-day moving average	USD$18.149
Wall St. target price	USD$24.43
PE ratio	9.2528
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.954

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Is it a good time to buy Pluralsight stock?

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Technical Analysis of Pluralsight, Inc by TradingView

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Pluralsight price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $18.76 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-22)	5.99%
1 month (2020-09-29)	8.75%
3 months (2020-07-29)	-4.58%
6 months (2020-04-29)	10.42%

1 year (2019-10-29)	5.33%
2 years (2018-10-29)	-11.34%
3 years (2017-10-25)	N/A
5 years (2015-10-25)	N/A

Is Pluralsight under- or over-valued?

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

Pluralsight's P/E ratio

Pluralsight's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 9x. In other words, Pluralsight shares trade at around 9x recent earnings.

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

Pluralsight financials

Revenue TTM	USD$358.8 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$245.6 million
Return on assets TTM	-9.25%
Return on equity TTM	-70.5%
Profit margin	-36.15%
Book value	$1.531
Market capitalisation	USD$2.7 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Pluralsight shares

There are currently 7.9 million Pluralsight shares held short by investors – that's known as Pluralsight's "short interest". This figure is 2.3% down from 8.0 million last month.

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

Pluralsight's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Pluralsight's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Pluralsight shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Pluralsight shares traded daily (recently around 1.2 million). Pluralsight's SIR currently stands at 6.32. In other words for every 100,000 Pluralsight shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6320 shares are currently held short.

However Pluralsight's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Pluralsight shares, or, against the total number of tradable Pluralsight shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Pluralsight's short interest could be expressed as 0.05% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Pluralsight shares in existence, roughly 50 shares are currently held short) or 0.0714% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Pluralsight shares, roughly 71 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Pluralsight.

Find out more about how you can short Pluralsight stock.

Pluralsight share dividends

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

Pluralsight share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Pluralsight's shares have ranged in value from as little as $6.59 up to $22.69. 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 Pluralsight's is 2.4437. This would suggest that Pluralsight's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Pluralsight overview

Pluralsight, Inc. operates a cloud-based technology skills platform in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. Its platform products include Pluralsight Skills for individuals and teams to acquire technology skills through skill development experiences, such as skill assessments, a curated library of expert-authored courses, directed learning paths, interactive content, and business analytics; and Pluralsight Flow, which gives technology leaders objective data and visibility into workflow patterns to measure the productivity of their software developers. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Farmington, Utah.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Pluralsight is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 5.459% of Pluralsight shares are held by insiders and 111.028% by institutions.

• How many people work for Pluralsight?

  Latest data suggests 1,600 work at Pluralsight.

• When does the fiscal year end for Pluralsight?

  Pluralsight's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Pluralsight based?

  Pluralsight's address is: 182 North Union Avenue, Farmington, UT, United States, 84025

• What is Pluralsight's CUSIP number?

  Pluralsight's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 72941B106