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Zoom Video Communications, Inc (ZM) is a leading telecom services business based in the US. It opened the day at $238.15 after a previous close of $236.72. During the day the price has varied from a low of $238.15 to a high of $250.06. The latest price was $247.25 (25 minute delay). Zoom is listed on the NASDAQ and employs 2,854 staff. All prices are listed in US Dollars.
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- Research Zoom shares. The platform should provide the latest information available.
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How has Coronavirus impacted Zoom's share price?
Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Zoom's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was $261, which is 61.01% up on its pre-crash value of $101.76 and 236.73% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as $77.51.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Zoom shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $1,820.58 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 $2,978.01.
Zoom share price
Use our graph to track the performance of ZM stocks over time.Zoom shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-08-13.
| Open | $238.15 |
|---|---|
| High | $250.06 |
| Low | $238.15 |
| Close | $247.25 |
| Previous close | $236.72 |
| Change | $10.53 |
| Change % | 4.448% |
| Volume | 4,749,728 |
Information last updated 2020-08-09.
| 52-week range | $60.9675 - $281 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $258.5285 |
| 200-day moving average | $169.1824 |
| Wall St. target price | $226.96 |
| PE ratio | 1502.3887 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.169 |
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Is it a good time to buy Zoom stock?
All investing should be regarded as longer term. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. Capital is at risk.
The technical analysis gauge below displays real-time ratings for the timeframes you select. This is not a recommendation, however. It represents a technical analysis based on the most popular technical indicators: Moving Averages, Oscillators and Pivots. Finder might not concur and takes no responsibility.
Zoom price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the last close of $247.25
| 1 week (2020-08-07) | -4.44% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-07-14) | -4.91% |
| 3 months (2020-05-14) | 47.25% |
| 6 months (2020-02-14) | 171.85% |
| 1 year (2019-08-14) | 166.86% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2018-08-10) | N/A |
| 3 years (2017-08-10) | N/A |
| 5 years (2015-08-10) | N/A |
Is Zoom under- or over-valued?
Valuing Zoom stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Zoom's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Zoom's P/E ratio
Zoom's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 1502x. In other words, Zoom shares trade at around 1502x 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.
Zoom's PEG ratio
Zoom's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.5984. 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 Zoom's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Zoom's EBITDA
Zoom's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $62.8 million (£48 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Zoom's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Zoom financials
| Revenue TTM | $828.8 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 5.35% |
| Gross profit TTM | $507.3 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.81% |
| Return on equity TTM | 6.19% |
| Profit margin | 6.05% |
| Book value | $3.197 |
| Market capitalisation | $73 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Zoom shares
There are currently 13.2 million Zoom shares held short by investors – that's known as Zoom's "short interest". This figure is 23.8% up from 10.6 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Zoom shares can be evaluated.
Zoom's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Zoom's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Zoom shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Zoom shares traded daily (recently around 10.4 million). Zoom's SIR currently stands at 1.27. In other words for every 100,000 Zoom shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1270 shares are currently held short.
To gain some more context, you can compare Zoom's short interest ratio against those of similar companies.
However Zoom's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Zoom shares, or, against the total number of tradable Zoom shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Zoom's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Zoom shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0636% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Zoom shares, roughly 64 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 Zoom.
Find out more about how you can short Zoom stock.
Zoom share dividends
We're not expecting Zoom to pay a dividend over the next 12 months. However, you can browse other dividend-paying shares in our guide.
Zoom overview
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. provides a video-first communications platform in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's product portfolio includes Zoom Meetings that offers HD video, voice, chat, and content sharing through mobile devices, desktops, laptops, telephones, and conference room systems; Zoom Phone, an enterprise cloud phone system that provides secure call routing, call queuing, call detail reports, call recording, call quality monitoring, voicemail, switch to video, and other services, as well as inbound and outbound calling services; and Zoom Chat enables sharing messages, images, audio files, and content in desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices for meeting and phone customers. It also offers Zoom Rooms, a software-based conference room system; Zoom Conference Room Connector, a gateway for SIP/H.323 endpoints to join Zoom meetings; and Zoom Video Webinars enables users to conduct large-scale online events, such as town hall meetings, workshops, and marketing presentations. In addition, the company provides Zoom for Developers that allows developers to integrate its video, phone, chat, and content sharing into other applications, as well as manages Zoom accounts; and Zoom App Marketplace enhance developers to publish their apps. It serves education, entertainment/media, enterprise infrastructure, finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit/not for profit and social impact, retail/consumer products, and software/Internet industries, as well as individuals. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has partnership with ServiceNow. The company was formerly known as Zoom Communications, Inc. and changed its name to Zoom Video Communications, Inc. in May 2012. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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