How to buy Taoping stock | $9.8

Taoping Inc is a software-infrastructure business based in the US. Taoping shares (TAOP) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Taoping employs 78 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$10.4 million.

How to buy shares in Taoping

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 Taoping. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: TAOP. 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 Taoping 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$9.8, 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 Taoping, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Taoping. 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.

Taoping share price

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Taoping shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-23.

Latest market close	USD$9.8
52-week range	USD$1.86 - USD$10.84
50-day moving average	USD$3.8656
200-day moving average	USD$3.1179
Wall St. target price	USD$9
PE ratio	3.0889
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.051

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Taoping price performance over time

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Taoping financials

Revenue TTM	USD$10.4 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$6.6 million
Return on assets TTM	-16.11%
Return on equity TTM	-81.83%
Profit margin	-90.4%
Book value	$0.753
Market capitalisation	USD$71.9 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Taoping shares

There are currently 6,793 Taoping shares held short by investors – that's known as Taoping's "short interest". This figure is 75.2% down from 27,420 last month.

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

Taoping's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Taoping's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Taoping shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Taoping shares traded daily (recently around 679300). Taoping's SIR currently stands at 0.01. In other words for every 100,000 Taoping shares traded daily on the market, roughly 10 shares are currently held short.

However Taoping's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Taoping shares, or, against the total number of tradable Taoping shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Taoping's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Taoping shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0012% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Taoping shares, roughly 1 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 Taoping.

Find out more about how you can short Taoping stock.

Have Taoping's shares ever split?

Taoping's shares were split on a 1:6 basis on 30 July 2020. So if you had owned 6 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 Taoping shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 500% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Taoping shares which in turn could have impacted Taoping's share price.

Taoping share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Taoping's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.86 up to $10.84. 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 Taoping's is 0.7769. This would suggest that Taoping's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Taoping overview

Taoping Inc. provides cloud-based platform, resource sharing, and big data solutions to the Chinese new media, education residential community management, and elevator Internet of Things (IoT) industries in the People's Republic of China. The company operates in two segments, Cloud-based Technology and Traditional Information Technology. It offers cloud-based software as a service to automate the interactive workflow between advertising agencies and their customers, including establishing new projects, submitting advertisement proposals, revising and approving advertising proposals, processing payment online, remotely uploading advertisement content, and tracking and analyzing performance data. The company also provides project-based technology products and services for the public sector; and software and hardware with fully integrated solutions, including information technology infrastructure, Internet-enabled display technologies, and IoT platforms to customers in government, education, residential community management, media, transportation, healthcare, and other private sectors, as well as related maintenance and support services. In addition, it offers cloud-app-terminal and IoT technology based digital advertising distribution network and media resource sharing platform in the out-of-home advertising markets. Further, the company operates Taoping Net, an advertising-resources trading service platform, which connect screen owners, advertisers, and consumers; and Taoping App, which enable customers to distribute and manage ads from mobile terminals. The company was formerly known as China Information Technology, Inc. and changed its name to Taoping Inc. in June 2018. Taoping Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.

Frequently asked questions

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

  Currently 39.208% of Taoping shares are held by insiders and 1.643% by institutions.

• How many people work for Taoping?

  Latest data suggests 78 work at Taoping.

• When does the fiscal year end for Taoping?

  Taoping's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Taoping based?

  Taoping's address is: Everbright Bank Building, Shenzhen, China, 518040

• What is Taoping's ISIN number?

  Taoping's international securities identification number is: VGG8675V1195

• What is Taoping's CUSIP number?

  Taoping's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 16950L208