Compass (NYSE:COMP) Cut to “Hold” at Wall Street Zen

Wall Street Zen cut shares of Compass (NYSE:COMP) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research report released on Sunday.

A number of other research firms have also weighed in on COMP. UBS Group upped their target price on Compass from $11.00 to $12.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 5th. Zacks Research upgraded Compass from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, November 10th. BTIG Research raised their price objective on Compass from $9.00 to $11.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 27th. Barclays boosted their target price on shares of Compass from $8.00 to $9.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 5th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company raised their price target on shares of Compass from $7.00 to $8.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 5th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Compass has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $10.00.

Compass Price Performance

Shares of Compass stock opened at $9.33 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $5.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -84.83 and a beta of 2.56. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $8.23 and its two-hundred day moving average is $7.56. Compass has a 1 year low of $5.10 and a 1 year high of $10.25.

Compass (NYSE:COMP) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November 4th. The company reported ($0.01) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.02) by $0.01. Compass had a negative net margin of 0.85% and a negative return on equity of 8.83%. The business had revenue of $1.85 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.79 billion. Compass has set its Q4 2025 guidance at EPS. On average, equities analysts expect that Compass will post 0.09 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Compass news, General Counsel Bradley K. Serwin sold 13,065 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $9.50, for a total value of $124,117.50. Following the completion of the sale, the general counsel owned 252,221 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,396,099.50. This trade represents a 4.92% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Insiders sold 27,936 shares of company stock valued at $258,409 in the last three months. Company insiders own 4.08% of the company’s stock.

About Compass

Compass, Inc provides real estate brokerage services in the United States. It operates a cloud-based platform that provides an integrated suite of software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, operations, and other functionality in the real estate industry. The company offers mobile apps that allow agents to manage their business anytime and anywhere, as well as designs consumer-grade user interfaces, automated and simplified workflows for agent-client interactions, and insight-rich dashboards and reports.