Given SPOT's price rise, we analyze its current position to find out whether investors should buy, hold, or book profits.
Spotify's stock has surged 85.1% since my initial “cautious buy” rating, driven by better-than-expected company improvements and strong execution. Despite impressive growth, the reduced margin of safety now requires greater optimism for a favorable valuation, prompting a downgrade to “cautious hold”. Spotify has achieved significant milestones, including a +30% gross margin and +670 million MAUs, through strategic initiatives and cost management.
Spotify was down Wednesday, with about 50,000 reports of an outage on DownDetector. The company said it was working on a fix but did not provide details about the scope of the outage.
Spotify is suffering a widespread outage - with the popular music app failing to load for many users.
In the closing of the recent trading day, Spotify (SPOT) stood at $543.66, denoting a -1.69% change from the preceding trading day.
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Spotify (SPOT) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.
Spotify announced Gen AI ads, among other changes to its advertising business, at an event in New York City on Thursday. Notably, the company introduced a new programmatic offering, the Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), which allows advertisers to reach Spotify's logged-in users via real-time auctions.
Spotify (SPOT 0.32%) has fought off formidable competitors to build a dominant position in streaming music and that moat will grow over time. Add in the expansion into podcasts, audiobooks, and now video and this is a great stock to buy and hold forever.
In the closing of the recent trading day, Spotify (SPOT) stood at $551.73, denoting a +0.31% change from the preceding trading day.
On Tuesday, Bank of America Securities analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich maintained a Buy rating on Spotify Technology SPOT with a price target of $700.