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Twilio Inc is an internet content & information business based in the US. Twilio shares (TWLO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Twilio employs 3,284 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.4 billion.
How to buy shares in Twilio
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- 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.
- Search for Twilio. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: TWLO. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Twilio reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$326.47, 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 Twilio, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Twilio. 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 Twilio's share price?
Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Twilio's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was USD$326.47, which is 62.24% up on its pre-crash value of USD$123.27 and 379.71% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$68.0555.
If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Twilio shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$699.97 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$2,546.47.
Twilio share price
Use our graph to track the performance of TWLO stocks over time.Twilio shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-10-20.
| Latest market close | USD$326.47 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | USD$68.0555 - USD$341.7 |
| 50-day moving average | USD$264.7043 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$215.4148 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$336.83 |
| PE ratio | N/A |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$-1.834 |
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Is it a good time to buy Twilio stock?
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Twilio price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $326.47 from 2020-10-16
| 1 week (2020-10-15) | 0.17% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-09-22) | 37.75% |
| 3 months (2020-07-22) | 24.58% |
| 6 months (2020-04-22) | 202.60% |
| 1 year (2019-10-22) | 224.36% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2018-10-22) | 371.57% |
| 3 years (2017-10-20) | 900.83% |
| 5 years (2015-10-18) | N/A |
Is Twilio under- or over-valued?
Valuing Twilio stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Twilio's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Twilio's PEG ratio
Twilio's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 13.6309. 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 Twilio's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Twilio financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$1.4 billion |
|---|---|
| Gross profit TTM | USD$609 million |
| Return on assets TTM | -4.42% |
| Return on equity TTM | -8.65% |
| Profit margin | -26.77% |
| Book value | $30.214 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$45.8 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Twilio shares
There are currently 9.4 million Twilio shares held short by investors – that's known as Twilio's "short interest". This figure is 5.3% down from 10.0 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Twilio shares can be evaluated.
Twilio's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Twilio's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Twilio shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Twilio shares traded daily (recently around 2.0 million). Twilio's SIR currently stands at 4.62. In other words for every 100,000 Twilio shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4620 shares are currently held short.
However Twilio's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Twilio shares, or, against the total number of tradable Twilio shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Twilio's short interest could be expressed as 0.07% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Twilio shares in existence, roughly 70 shares are currently held short) or 0.0716% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Twilio shares, roughly 72 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 Twilio.
Find out more about how you can short Twilio stock.
Twilio share dividends
We're not expecting Twilio to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Twilio share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Twilio's shares have ranged in value from as little as $68.0555 up to $341.7. 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 Twilio's is 1.6243. This would suggest that Twilio's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Twilio overview
Twilio Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud communications platform that enables developers to build, scale, and operate communications within software applications in the United States and internationally. Its customer engagement platform provides a set of application programming interfaces that handle the higher level communication logic needed for nearly every type of customer engagement, as well as enable developers to embed voice, messaging, and video capabilities into their applications. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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