Barrington Research Reaffirms “Outperform” Rating for OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR)

OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR)‘s stock had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Barrington Research in a research report issued on Friday, Benzinga reports. They currently have a $25.00 price objective on the specialty retailer’s stock. Barrington Research’s price target indicates a potential upside of 49.25% from the company’s current price.

OPENLANE Price Performance

KAR stock traded down $0.17 on Friday, reaching $16.75. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 356,311 shares, compared to its average volume of 722,093. OPENLANE has a 52 week low of $12.86 and a 52 week high of $18.73. The company has a market capitalization of $1.81 billion, a P/E ratio of -9.36, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.44. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $17.25 and a two-hundred day moving average of $17.05.

OPENLANE (NYSE:KAR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 7th. The specialty retailer reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.21 by ($0.02). OPENLANE had a return on equity of 7.85% and a net margin of 3.39%. The business had revenue of $431.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $426.11 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.25 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts expect that OPENLANE will post 0.78 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in KAR. Hawk Ridge Capital Management LP lifted its position in OPENLANE by 5.3% in the fourth quarter. Hawk Ridge Capital Management LP now owns 3,900,178 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock worth $57,762,000 after purchasing an additional 195,200 shares during the period. Invenomic Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in shares of OPENLANE in the fourth quarter valued at $6,009,000. Olympiad Research LP acquired a new stake in shares of OPENLANE in the fourth quarter valued at $255,000. Raymond James & Associates boosted its stake in OPENLANE by 293.5% during the second quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 243,164 shares of the specialty retailer’s stock valued at $4,034,000 after buying an additional 181,364 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Brown Advisory Inc. acquired a new position in OPENLANE during the fourth quarter worth about $362,000. 99.76% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

OPENLANE Company Profile

OPENLANE, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital marketplace for used vehicles, which connects sellers and buyers in North America, Europe, the Philippines, and Uruguay. The company operates through two segments, Marketplace and Finance. The Marketplace segment offers digital marketplace services for buying and selling used vehicles.