How to buy Transcontinental Realty Investors stock | $21.51

Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc is a real estate services business based in the US. Transcontinental Realty Investors shares (TCI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Transcontinental Realty Investors

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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 Transcontinental Realty Investors. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: TCI. 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 Transcontinental Realty Investors 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$21.51, 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 Transcontinental Realty Investors, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Transcontinental Realty Investors. 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.

Transcontinental Realty Investors share price

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Transcontinental Realty Investors shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-01-14.

Latest market close	USD$21.51
52-week range	USD$16 - USD$40.42
50-day moving average	USD$25.1579
200-day moving average	USD$25.1962
Wall St. target price	N/A
PE ratio	230
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.1

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Is it a good time to buy Transcontinental Realty Investors stock?

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Transcontinental Realty Investors price performance over time

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Is Transcontinental Realty Investors under- or over-valued?

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

Transcontinental Realty Investors's P/E ratio

Transcontinental Realty Investors's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 230x. In other words, Transcontinental Realty Investors shares trade at around 230x 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.

Transcontinental Realty Investors's EBITDA

Transcontinental Realty Investors's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$3.1 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Transcontinental Realty Investors's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Transcontinental Realty Investors financials

Revenue TTM	USD$42.5 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$20 million
Return on assets TTM	-1.03%
Return on equity TTM	0.43%
Profit margin	2.28%
Book value	$39.087
Market capitalisation	USD$200.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Transcontinental Realty Investors shares

There are currently 9,024 Transcontinental Realty Investors shares held short by investors – that's known as Transcontinental Realty Investors's "short interest". This figure is 0.9% down from 9,104 last month.

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

Transcontinental Realty Investors's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Transcontinental Realty Investors's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Transcontinental Realty Investors shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Transcontinental Realty Investors shares traded daily (recently around 2128.3018867925). Transcontinental Realty Investors's SIR currently stands at 4.24. In other words for every 100,000 Transcontinental Realty Investors shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4240 shares are currently held short.

However Transcontinental Realty Investors's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Transcontinental Realty Investors shares, or, against the total number of tradable Transcontinental Realty Investors shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Transcontinental Realty Investors's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Transcontinental Realty Investors shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0086% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Transcontinental Realty Investors shares, roughly 9 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 Transcontinental Realty Investors.

Find out more about how you can short Transcontinental Realty Investors stock.

Transcontinental Realty Investors share dividends

We're not expecting Transcontinental Realty Investors to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Transcontinental Realty Investors's shares ever split?

Transcontinental Realty Investors's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 4 March 1996. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Transcontinental Realty Investors shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Transcontinental Realty Investors shares which in turn could have impacted Transcontinental Realty Investors's share price.

Transcontinental Realty Investors share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Transcontinental Realty Investors's shares have ranged in value from as little as $16 up to $40.42. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Transcontinental Realty Investors's is 0.7946. This would suggest that Transcontinental Realty Investors's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Transcontinental Realty Investors overview

Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc., a Dallas-based real estate investment company, holds a diverse portfolio of equity real estate located across the U.S., including apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, and developed and undeveloped land. The Company invests in real estate through direct ownership, leases and partnerships and invests in mortgage loans on real estate.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Transcontinental Realty Investors is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 88.196% of Transcontinental Realty Investors shares are held by insiders and 2.27% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Transcontinental Realty Investors?

  Transcontinental Realty Investors's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Transcontinental Realty Investors based?

  Transcontinental Realty Investors's address is: Browning Place, Dallas, TX, United States, 75234

• What is Transcontinental Realty Investors's ISIN number?

  Transcontinental Realty Investors's international securities identification number is: US8936172092

• What is Transcontinental Realty Investors's CUSIP number?

  Transcontinental Realty Investors's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 893617209