On Jan. four, Square (NYSE:SQ) chief executive officer Jack Dorsey converted 100,000 Class B shares into Class A shares and then sold the Square stock at an average price of $219.53.
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The stock sale is a component of planned sales by the billionaire co founder. He soon started the weekly sales of 100,000 shares on Nov. sixteen. Since that time, he’s sold 700,000 shares by using his newest divestiture on Jan. four.
Estimating the total sales, he likely generated $160 million in pre-tax proceeds. Heck, even billionaires have bills to pay.
When you are contemplating offering based on these planned sales, don’t. Square’s got ample space to work in 2021.
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Square Stock Hits $300 Square stock is today trading at more than $240. Since Jan. 1, the stock is up more than 10 %.
And that’s in addition to the 245 % gains it achieved in 2020, something I had a suspicion would happen. Here’s what I published on Jan. 3, 2020:
Since Q3 2017, Square’s GPV [gross transaction volume] from sellers with an annual GPV of over $500,000 grew 700 basis points to 27 %. Meanwhile, those sellers with a yearly GPV of less than $125,000 dropped 700 basis points to forty five %. At exactly the same time, sellers with between $125,000 and $500,000 in GPV increased by 100 basis points to twenty eight %. Exactly why is this important? It shows that the company’s revenue has grown to be a lot more diversified; it now gains from payment processing across businesses of all sizes.
How is it doing a year later on this front?
In the third quarter of 2020, sellers with yearly GPV greater than $500,000 accounted for 30.6 % of the $28.8 billion in seller GPV. That is up 270 basis points from the previous year. Sellers with yearly GPV between $125,000 as well as $500,000 were $8.7 billion in Q3 2020, or perhaps 10.1 % higher than in the third quarter a year earlier. These two groups accounted for sixty one % of seller GPV in Q3 2020, 500 basis points higher than the prior year.
Without a doubt, sellers with annual GPV less than $125,000 still accounted for thirty nine % of general seller GPV, though it shows larger companies’ acceptance fee, which happens to be important to its ongoing growth.
To get to $300 sooner in 2021, two things have to keep growing: Cash App, its finance app, and Square Capital, its lending platform.
