Townsquare Media Stock Forecast - Naive Prediction

TSQ Stock  USD 5.72  0.12  2.14%   
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of Townsquare Media on the next trading day is expected to be 6.22 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.16 and the sum of the absolute errors of 9.91. Townsquare Stock Forecast is based on your current time horizon. Although Townsquare Media's naive historical forecasting may sometimes provide an important future outlook for the firm, we recommend always cross-verifying it against solid analysis of Townsquare Media's systematic risk associated with finding meaningful patterns of Townsquare Media fundamentals over time.
As of today, The relative strength momentum indicator of Townsquare Media's share price is at 51. This usually implies that the stock is in nutural position, most likellhy at or near its resistance level. The main idea of RSI analysis is to track how fast people are buying or selling Townsquare Media, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 51

 Impartial

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Townsquare Media's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Townsquare Media, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Townsquare Media's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
1.767
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
0.08
EPS Estimate Current Year
0.34
EPS Estimate Next Year
0.69
Wall Street Target Price
13.5
Using Townsquare Media hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Townsquare Media from the perspective of Townsquare Media response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Townsquare Media using Townsquare Media's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Townsquare using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Townsquare Media's stock price.

Townsquare Media Short Interest

An investor who is long Townsquare Media may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about Townsquare Media and may potentially protect profits, hedge Townsquare Media with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
6.5515
Short Percent
0.0077
Short Ratio
1.5
Shares Short Prior Month
102 K
50 Day MA
5.1924

Townsquare Media Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Townsquare Media's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Townsquare. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Townsquare can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Townsquare Media. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.

Townsquare Media Implied Volatility

    
  1.35  
Townsquare Media's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Townsquare Media stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Townsquare Media's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Townsquare Media stock will not fluctuate a lot when Townsquare Media's options are near their expiration.
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of Townsquare Media on the next trading day is expected to be 6.22 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.16 and the sum of the absolute errors of 9.91.

Townsquare Media after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 5.72  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Townsquare Media to cross-verify your projections.
To learn how to invest in Townsquare Stock, please use our How to Invest in Townsquare Media guide.

Open Interest Against 2026-03-20 Townsquare Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast Townsquare Media's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in Townsquare Media's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for Townsquare Media stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current Townsquare Media's open interest, investors have to compare it to Townsquare Media's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of Townsquare Media is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in Townsquare. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

Townsquare Media Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Townsquare price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Townsquare using various technical indicators. When you analyze Townsquare charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

Townsquare Media Cash Forecast

Forecasting financial indicators like cash flow involves analysts applying various statistical methods, techniques, and algorithms. These tools reveal hidden trends within the Townsquare Media's financial statements to estimate their effects on upcoming price movements.
 
Cash  
First Reported
2000-12-31
Previous Quarter
3.2 M
Current Value
3.2 M
Quarterly Volatility
28.1 M
 
Housing Crash
 
Credit Downgrade
 
Yuan Drop
 
Covid
A naive forecasting model for Townsquare Media is a special case of the moving average forecasting where the number of periods used for smoothing is one. Therefore, the forecast of Townsquare Media value for a given trading day is simply the observed value for the previous period. Due to the simplistic nature of the naive forecasting model, it can only be used to forecast up to one period.

Townsquare Media Naive Prediction Price Forecast For the 24th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Naive Prediction forecasted value of Townsquare Media on the next trading day is expected to be 6.22 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.16, mean absolute percentage error of 0.04, and the sum of the absolute errors of 9.91.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Townsquare Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Townsquare Media's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

Townsquare Media Stock Forecast Pattern

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Townsquare Media Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting Townsquare Media's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. Townsquare Media's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 3.03 and 9.41, respectively. We have considered Townsquare Media's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
5.72
6.22
Expected Value
9.41
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Naive Prediction forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Townsquare Media stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Townsquare Media stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria114.9238
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation0.1625
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0308
SAESum of the absolute errors9.9103
This model is not at all useful as a medium-long range forecasting tool of Townsquare Media. This model is simplistic and is included partly for completeness and partly because of its simplicity. It is unlikely that you'll want to use this model directly to predict Townsquare Media. Instead, consider using either the moving average model or the more general weighted moving average model with a higher (i.e., greater than 1) number of periods, and possibly a different set of weights.

Predictive Modules for Townsquare Media

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as Townsquare Media. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Townsquare Media's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
2.525.728.92
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
2.415.618.81
Details
2 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
12.2913.5014.99
Details

Townsquare Media After-Hype Price Prediction Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Townsquare Media at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Townsquare Media or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Townsquare Media, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Townsquare Media Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Townsquare Media's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Townsquare Media's historical news coverage. Townsquare Media's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 2.52 and 8.92, respectively. We have considered Townsquare Media's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
5.72
5.72
After-hype Price
8.92
Upside
Townsquare Media is slightly risky at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Townsquare Media is based on 3 months time horizon.

Townsquare Media Stock Price Prediction Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Townsquare Media is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Townsquare Media backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Townsquare Media, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.13 
3.19
 0.00  
 0.00  
14 Events / Month
6 Events / Month
In about 14 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
5.72
5.72
0.00 
31,900  
Notes

Townsquare Media Hype Timeline

On the 23rd of January Townsquare Media is traded for 5.72. The entity stock is not elastic to its hype. The average elasticity to hype of competition is 0.0. Townsquare is projected not to react to the next headline, with the price staying at about the same level, and average media hype impact volatility is over 100%. The immediate return on the next news is projected to be very small, whereas the daily expected return is at this time at -0.13%. %. The volatility of related hype on Townsquare Media is about 24538.46%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 5.72. About 20.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by corporate insiders. The company has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.96. Townsquare Media last dividend was issued on the 26th of January 2026. The entity had 1:4 split on the 9th of October 2014. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next projected press release will be in about 14 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Townsquare Media to cross-verify your projections.
To learn how to invest in Townsquare Stock, please use our How to Invest in Townsquare Media guide.

Townsquare Media Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Townsquare Media's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Townsquare Media's future price movements. Getting to know how Townsquare Media's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Townsquare Media may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
CDLXCardlytics(0.01)4 per month 0.00 (0.08) 10.71 (9.43) 36.22 
XNETXunlei Ltd Adr(0.02)3 per month 0.00 (0.09) 4.32 (5.27) 15.16 
TZOOTravelzoo 0.00 11 per month 0.00 (0.26) 3.95 (3.62) 20.06 
MCHXMarchex(0.02)8 per month 0.00 (0.06) 2.60 (3.51) 13.32 
ILLRTriller Group(0.02)8 per month 0.00 (0.13) 16.67 (40.32) 109.86 
IZEAIZEA Inc 0.01 17 per month 0.00 (0.17) 5.11 (4.35) 13.32 
FNGRFingerMotion 0.02 9 per month 0.00 (0.06) 9.86 (6.82) 28.83 
SEATVivid Seats(0.01)4 per month 0.00 (0.17) 6.86 (10.82) 24.24 
WIMIWiMi Hologram Cloud(0.02)3 per month 0.00 (0.14) 5.15 (5.94) 18.66 
FLNTFluent Inc(0.06)8 per month 3.27  0.14  10.98 (5.51) 26.93 

Other Forecasting Options for Townsquare Media

For every potential investor in Townsquare, whether a beginner or expert, Townsquare Media's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. Townsquare Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in Townsquare. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying Townsquare Media's price trends.

Townsquare Media Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Townsquare Media stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Townsquare Media could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Townsquare Media by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

Townsquare Media Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how Townsquare Media stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading Townsquare Media shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying Townsquare Media stock market strength indicators, traders can identify Townsquare Media entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

Townsquare Media Risk Indicators

The analysis of Townsquare Media's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Townsquare Media's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting townsquare stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for Townsquare Media

The number of cover stories for Townsquare Media depends on current market conditions and Townsquare Media's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that Townsquare Media is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about Townsquare Media's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

Townsquare Media Short Properties

Townsquare Media's future price predictability will typically decrease when Townsquare Media's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of Townsquare Media often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential Townsquare Media's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. Townsquare Media's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding15.6 M
Cash And Short Term Investments33 M

Additional Tools for Townsquare Stock Analysis

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