On Monday, a key rating for Affirm Holdings made a huge leap to an important milestone. The Relative Strength (RS) Rating for Affirm stock leapt to 94, up from 76 the day before. Its stock soared after its recent IPO, but it took a step back Monday.
Still, the 94 RS Rating means that Affirm stock has outperformed 94% of all stocks in IBD's database since the company went public in January. History shows that the market's biggest winners tend to have an RS Rating north of 80 at the beginning of a new price run.
Affirm Stock Jumped 100% After IPO
Affirm stock fell for a few months after its IPO, among continued losses despite rising revenue. Its stock hit an intraday low of 47.12 on May 13. It then turned up sharply, hitting a 126.46 high on Sept. 10. The rise came as the buy now, pay later platform specialist inked deals with the likes of Walmart, Peloton and, recently, Amazon.com, among others. Affirm was trading at 110.62 Monday afternoon, down 10.5% for the day.
The company lost 52 cents per share last quarter on a 71% year-over-year surge in revenue, to $261.8 million.
Affirm stock earns the No. 14 rank among its peers in the Finance-Card/Payment Processing industry group. Dlocal, Square and CPI Card Group are among the top 5 highly rated stocks within the group.
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