Shares of Redfin Corp. sank into record-low territory Monday after Oppenheimer’ Jason Helfstein really useful buyers promote, as he defined why he believed the true property providers firm has a flawed enterprise mannequin.
The bearish name comes two days earlier than the corporate is scheduled to report third-quarter outcomes.
The inventory
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-14.68%
dropped as a lot as 14.7% intraday, earlier than paring some losses to be down 11.7% in morning buying and selling, to place it on observe to shut beneath the Oct. 20, 2022 record-low shut of $3.93.
It has already plunged 65.8% over the previous three months, and 92.9% over the previous 12 months, and analyst Helfstein’s new value goal suggests it may lose one other 63% of its worth from present ranges.
Helfstein lower his ranking to underperform, after being at carry out for the previous two years. He established a inventory value goal of $1.30.
“We consider Redfin’s core enterprise is essentially flawed with fixed-cost mannequin for brokers versus 100% fee for trade,” Helfstein wrote in a be aware to shoppers.
He defined that Redfin’s enterprise mannequin prevents the corporate from optimizing margins when housing markets decline, and prevents it from gaining market share when markets rebound.
Meaning the corporate lags the market by six-to-12 months, at a time when surging mortgage charges have led to steep declines in dwelling gross sales.
FactSet
Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that ensures mortgages, mentioned Monday that its House Buy Sentiment Index fell for the eight-straight month in October to 56.7, the bottom studying for the reason that inception of the index in 2011.
“[W]e estimate that it’ll take ~two years for housing demand to return to significant progress,” Helfstein wrote.
The corporate is scheduled to report quarterly outcomes on Nov. 9, after the closing bell. For the second-quarter, the corporate reported a wider-than-expected loss and income that missed expectations for the primary time in almost 5 years, based on FactSet.
The corporate is predicted to report a third-quarter lack of 80 cents a share, which might mark a seventh-straight quarterly loss, and income that rises about 12% from a yr in the past to $602.7 million.
The inventory has misplaced 90.8% this yr, whereas shares of rival RE/MAX Holdings Inc. have shed 42.1% and the S&P 500 index
SPX,
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has misplaced 20.8%.