Nomura Instinet analyst Dan Dolev raised his price target for Square (SQ) to $125 from $86 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. The stock closed yesterday up 75c to $86.04.
The analyst’s analysis of Square’s fundamentals indicates “buoyant” gross payment volume, revenue and marketing efficacy trends. The company’s “fully cohesive solutions and rapid rate of innovation” suggest that it is en route to disrupt the global payments ecosystem, Dolev tells investors in a research note titled “Improving Momentum Means $125 Is Within Reach.”
He believes this is similar to the FANG stocks, or Facebook (FB), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Google (GOOG, GOOGL), that have “disrupted traditional markets with massive” global total addressable markets. Further, Dolev believes shares of Square are not too expensive when taking into account its “stellar” 45% expected three-year annual revenue growth, which he thinks “makes it screen more attractively than many payment peers and FANG stocks.”
