Snap (SNAP) Receives a Buy from J.P. Morgan


In a report released today, Doug Anmuth from J.P. Morgan maintained a Buy rating on Snap (SNAP), with a price target of $16.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $8.41, close to its 52-week low of $7.89.

According to TipRanks.com, Anmuth is a top 100 analyst with an average return of 15.5% and a 62.4% success rate. Anmuth covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Fiverr International, ANGI Homeservices, and Uber Technologies.

Snap has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $20.04, which is a 149.6% upside from current levels. In a report issued on March 5, MKM Partners also upgraded the stock to Buy with a $19.00 price target.

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Based on Snap’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly GAAP net loss of $241 million. In comparison, last year the company had a GAAP net loss of $192 million.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 151 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of SNAP in relation to earlier this year.

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Snap, Inc. engages in the operation of its camera platform. Its products include Snapchat, using the camera and editing tools to take and share Snaps, Friends Page, which lets users create and use Stories, Groups, Video and Chat, Discover for searching and surfacing relevant Stories, Snap Map, which shows friends, Stories and Snaps near the user, Memories, for saving personal collections, and Spectacles, wearable sunglasses capable of taking Snaps and interacting directly with the Snapchat application. The company’s primary source of revenue is advertising. Snap was founded by Frank Reginald Brown IV, Evan Thomas Spiegel, and Robert C. Murphy in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

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