Spotify Know-how (SPOT) inventory rose Thursday after a Wall Road analyst turned constructive on the streaming music service.
Oppenheimer analyst Jason Helfstein upgraded Spotify inventory to outperform, or purchase, from carry out, or impartial. He set a worth goal of 800 on the audio leisure chief.
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On the inventory market at present, Spotify inventory superior 1% to shut at 681.42. Nevertheless, it’s buying and selling beneath its 50-day shifting common line, a detrimental technical indicator.
Spotify inventory notched an all-time excessive of 785 on June 27. On April 25, Spotify broke out of a double-bottom base at a purchase level of 621.20, in accordance with IBD MarketSurge charts. However a two-day sell-off that adopted shook out many buyers.
Spotify has “too many tailwinds forward” to disregard, Helfstein stated in a shopper be aware. Particularly, he sees a major alternative to monetize free customers of the service with promoting. It additionally might cost a nominal month-to-month payment for ad-supported customers.
Different constructive tailwinds embrace a coming “superfan” tier and useful app retailer modifications, he stated.
Spotify additionally nonetheless has an extended runway to extend its person base, Helfstein stated. It ended the primary quarter with 678 million month-to-month energetic customers worldwide, together with 268 million subscribers.
“Music just isn’t a core focus of principal opponents Apple and Amazon, which subsequently have minimal incentive to spend money on platform enhancements,” Helfstein stated. “Spotify ought to garner (the) majority of radio listeners as terrestrial radio declines.”
Spotify will report its second-quarter outcomes on Tuesday. Analysts polled by FactSet anticipate the Stockholm-based firm to earn $2.32 a share on gross sales of $5 billion within the June quarter. Within the year-earlier interval, it earned $1.44 a share on gross sales of $4.13 billion.
Spotify inventory is on the IBD Tech Leaders checklist.
Observe Patrick Seitz on X at @IBD_PSeitz for extra tales on client know-how, software program and semiconductor shares.
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