Ziff Davis Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation
| ZD Stock | USD 57.71 0.17 0.29% |
Allowing for the 90-day total investment horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Ziff Davis is 'Hold'. Macroaxis provides Ziff Davis buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding ZD positions.
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Time Horizon
Risk Tolerance
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Hold
Market Performance | OK | Details | |
Volatility | Very steady | Details | |
Hype Condition | Under hyped | Details | |
Current Valuation | Undervalued | Details | |
Odds Of Distress | Very Small | Details | |
Economic Sensitivity | Actively responds to the market | Details | |
Investor Sentiment | Impartial | Details | |
Analyst Consensus | Buy | Details | |
Financial Strenth (F Score) | Strong | Details | |
Financial Leverage | Not Rated | Details | |
Reporting Quality (M-Score) | Unlikely Manipulator | Details |
Ziff Davis Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions
| Ziff Davis is unlikely to experience financial distress in the next 2 years | |
| Ziff Davis has a strong financial position based on the latest SEC filings | |
| Over 97.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors | |
| Latest headline from businesswire.com: Ziff Davis Appoints Lori Tansley as Chief Accounting Officer |
Ziff Davis Returns Distribution Density
The distribution of Ziff Davis' historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Ziff Davis' future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Ziff Davis daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Ziff Davis price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Ziff Davis returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Ziff Davis.
| Mean Return | 0.35 | Value At Risk | -3.72 | Potential Upside | 3.26 | Standard Deviation | 2.81 |
Return Density |
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Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Ziff Davis historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.
Ziff Stock Institutional Investors
| Shares | Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc | 2024-09-30 | 1 M | Amvescap Plc. | 2024-06-30 | 846.7 K | Macquarie Group Ltd | 2024-06-30 | 704.2 K | Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 2024-09-30 | 695.5 K | Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts | 2024-06-30 | 609.8 K | Nuveen Asset Management, Llc | 2024-06-30 | 575.4 K | Norges Bank | 2024-06-30 | 536.6 K | Allspring Global Investments Holdings, Llc | 2024-06-30 | 519.8 K | Northern Trust Corp | 2024-09-30 | 510.8 K | Blackrock Inc | 2024-06-30 | 5.7 M | Vanguard Group Inc | 2024-09-30 | 5.1 M |
Ziff Davis Cash Flow Accounts
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Change In Cash | 366.1M | (333.0M) | 452.2M | (42.0M) | 84.8M | 89.1M | |
| Free Cash Flow | 341.9M | 384.4M | 401.8M | 230.2M | 211.2M | 157.5M | |
| Depreciation | 253.5M | 228.7M | 258.3M | 233.4M | 237.0M | 248.8M | |
| Other Non Cash Items | 37.8M | 89.9M | (193.5M) | 91.7M | 113.2M | 118.9M | |
| Capital Expenditures | 70.6M | 95.7M | 113.8M | 106.2M | 108.7M | 114.2M | |
| Net Income | 218.8M | 150.7M | 495.1M | 63.8M | 41.5M | 39.4M | |
| End Period Cash Flow | 575.6M | 242.7M | 694.8M | 652.8M | 737.6M | 774.5M | |
| Change To Inventory | (6.7M) | (33.4M) | 5.7M | (70.0M) | (63.0M) | (59.9M) | |
| Change To Netincome | (19.9M) | 29.3M | (203.6M) | 85.8M | 77.3M | 81.1M | |
| Investments | (19.3M) | (33.2M) | 6.1M | (220.8M) | (125.6M) | (119.4M) | |
| Change Receivables | (30.7M) | (31.6M) | (18.1M) | 14.9M | 13.5M | 14.1M | |
| Dividends Paid | 81.7M | 43.5M | 1.6M | 9.2B | 10.6B | 11.1B | |
| Net Borrowings | 513.2M | 33.9M | (25.2M) | (71.5M) | (64.3M) | (61.1M) |
Ziff Davis Greeks
Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Ziff Davis or Software sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Ziff Davis' price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Ziff stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α | Alpha over Dow Jones | 0.12 | |
β | Beta against Dow Jones | 1.86 | |
σ | Overall volatility | 2.86 | |
Ir | Information ratio | 0.08 |
Ziff Davis Volatility Alert
Ziff Davis currently demonstrates below-average downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of 0.08 and Jensen Alpha of 0.12. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Ziff Davis' stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Ziff Davis' stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.Ziff Davis Fundamentals Vs Peers
Comparing Ziff Davis' fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Ziff Davis' direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Ziff Davis and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Ziff Davis or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Ziff Davis' fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Ziff Davis by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
| Better Than Average | Worse Than Average | Compare Ziff Davis to competition |
| Fundamentals | Ziff Davis | Peer Average |
| Return On Equity | 0.0351 | -0.31 |
| Return On Asset | 0.0369 | -0.14 |
| Profit Margin | 0.05 % | (1.27) % |
| Operating Margin | 0.16 % | (5.51) % |
| Current Valuation | 2.96 B | 16.62 B |
| Shares Outstanding | 42.74 M | 571.82 M |
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 2.93 % | 10.09 % |
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 97.07 % | 39.21 % |
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 2.55 M | 4.71 M |
| Price To Earning | 21.81 X | 28.72 X |
| Price To Book | 1.41 X | 9.51 X |
| Price To Sales | 1.79 X | 11.42 X |
| Revenue | 1.36 B | 9.43 B |
| Gross Profit | 1.2 B | 27.38 B |
| EBITDA | 426.23 M | 3.9 B |
| Net Income | 41.5 M | 570.98 M |
| Cash And Equivalents | 720.83 M | 2.7 B |
| Cash Per Share | 15.27 X | 5.01 X |
| Total Debt | 1 B | 5.32 B |
| Debt To Equity | 0.65 % | 48.70 % |
| Current Ratio | 2.12 X | 2.16 X |
| Book Value Per Share | 41.00 X | 1.93 K |
| Cash Flow From Operations | 319.96 M | 971.22 M |
| Short Ratio | 5.19 X | 4.00 X |
| Earnings Per Share | 1.34 X | 3.12 X |
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 0.84 X | 4.89 X |
| Target Price | 74.83 | |
| Number Of Employees | 4.2 K | 18.84 K |
| Beta | 1.24 | -0.15 |
| Market Capitalization | 2.47 B | 19.03 B |
| Total Asset | 3.47 B | 29.47 B |
| Retained Earnings | 1.49 B | 9.33 B |
| Working Capital | 759.16 M | 1.48 B |
Note: Disposition of 753 shares by Rossen Jeremy of Ziff Davis subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]
Ziff Davis Market Momentum
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Quarterly Earnings Growth 1.164 | Earnings Share 1.34 | Revenue Per Share 30.464 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.037 | Return On Assets 0.0369 |
The market value of Ziff Davis is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Ziff that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Ziff Davis' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Ziff Davis' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Ziff Davis' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Ziff Davis' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Ziff Davis' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Ziff Davis is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Ziff Davis' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.