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title: "Weekly Recap | Upstart -4.03%, consensus target above spot"
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description: "Upstart lost 4.03% this week to close at $29.08, while the S&P 500 added 0.49%, leaving the stock about 4.52 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week ended with a sharp down day. Monday through Thursday saw a choppy range between $29.58 and $31.70. On Friday the stock opened near $31.80, hit a weekly high, then sold off to a low of $28.92 and settled at $29.08. Volume that day reached 4.7m shares, about 1.4x the week’s daily average."
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# Weekly Recap | Upstart -4.03%, consensus target above spot

## The Week

Upstart lost 4.03% this week to close at $29.08, while the S&P 500 added 0.49%, leaving the stock about 4.52 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week ended with a sharp down day. Monday through Thursday saw a choppy range between $29.58 and $31.70. On Friday the stock opened near $31.80, hit a weekly high, then sold off to a low of $28.92 and settled at $29.08. Volume that day reached 4.7m shares, about 1.4x the week’s daily average.

## Key Events

Company news this week centred on the CEO’s schedule. On Wednesday 26 August, Upstart announced that CEO Paul Gu would join a fireside chat at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference. That was the only company-specific item of the week. The other two headlines, published Monday and Tuesday, placed Upstart on AI watchlists of stocks to follow, a routine sector-level mention. No material filings hit the tape.

## Analyst Ratings

Among 15 brokers covering Upstart, 6 rate it buy, 2 rate it overweight, 6 rate it hold, and 1 rates it underweight, with no sell ratings. The consensus rating is buy. The consensus target price is $40.40, about 38.9% above the latest close of $29.08. Targets range from $20 to $61, pointing to wide disagreement. Within the consumer-finance industry, Upstart ranks 8th out of 43 names by analyst rating.

## The Week Ahead

Macro data will dominate next week’s calendar. Monday brings the Dallas Fed manufacturing activity index. Tuesday has the S&P Global manufacturing PMI final, ISM manufacturing PMI, and JOLTS job openings. Wednesday includes ADP private payrolls and factory orders. For a consumer-credit name like Upstart, the labour-market reads from JOLTS and ADP may shape how the market prices default risk in its loan book.

## In Short

Upstart pulled back this week and lagged the S&P 500, yet the consensus rating remains buy and the consensus target sits roughly 39% above spot. At the same time, targets span $20 to $61, a sign of wide dispersion. The latest session’s flow was mixed: large-lot and small-lot money were net buyers, while medium-lot money was a net seller. The question heading into next week is whether jobs and manufacturing data shift risk appetite for consumer finance, and whether the stock can steady near $30 after Friday’s drop.

*This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.*

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