How to buy Smart Parking shares | A$0.11

Smart Parking Limited is a software—application business based in Australia. Smart Parking shares (SPZ) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Its last market close was $0.11 – the same closing value as a week prior. Smart Parking has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $21.6 million.

How to buy shares in Smart Parking

1. Compare share trading platforms. To buy shares listed in Australia, you'll need to sign up to a broker with access to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Our table below can help you choose.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and tax file number. Fund your account with a bank transfer, PayPal or debit card.
3. Search for Smart Parking . Find the share by name or ticker symbol: SPZ. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Smart Parking reaches your desired price. To spread out your risk, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At today's price of $0.11, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimise risk through the market's ups and downs.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Smart Parking . Optimise your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

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How has coronavirus impacted Smart Parking 's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Smart Parking 's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was $0.11, which is 52.17% down on its pre-crash value of $0.23 and 57.14% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as $0.07.

If you had bought $1,000 worth of Smart Parking shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $369.57 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $478.26.

Smart Parking share price

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Smart Parking shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	AUDA$0.11
52-week range	AUDA$0.07 - AUDA$0.26
50-day moving average	AUDA$0.1037
200-day moving average	AUDA$0.1024
Target price	AUDA$0.2
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	AUDA$-0.014

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Is it a good time to buy Smart Parking stock?

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Smart Parking price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of A$0.11 on 2020-10-22

1 week (2020-10-15)	0%
1 month (2020-09-25)	4.76%
3 months (2020-07-22)	15.79%
6 months (2020-04-22)	15.79%

1 year (2019-10-22)	-46.34%
2 years (2018-10-22)	-40.54%
3 years (2017-10-22)	N/A
5 years (2015-10-22)	-21.60%

Smart Parking financials

Revenue TTM	$21.6 million
Gross profit TTM	$6.4 million
Return on assets TTM	-11.81%
Return on equity TTM	-44.6%
Profit margin	-33.69%
Book value	0.036
Market capitalisation	$39.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Smart Parking share dividends

We're not expecting Smart Parking to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Smart Parking 's shares ever split?

Smart Parking 's shares were split on a 3:4 basis on 26 January 2011. So if you had owned 4 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Smart Parking shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Smart Parking shares which in turn could have impacted Smart Parking 's share price.

Smart Parking share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Smart Parking 's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.07 up to $0.26. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Smart Parking 's is 0.7044. This would suggest that Smart Parking 's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Smart Parking overview

Smart Parking Limited designs, develops, and manages parking technology in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in Technology, Parking Management, and Research and Development segment. The company develops and sells smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) technology, hardware, and software for parking solutions. It offers SmartCloud platform, a Web-based service platform that gathers and processes information; Smart Parking Mobile App, which shows real-time guidance and payment information for motorists; digital guidance signage that provides real-time space availability and car park capacity information, as well as directions to traffic flow; Vehicle Detection Sensors, which monitor bays and relay live status information to SmartCloud; and SmartSpot Gateway, an IoT gateway that allows various devices to connect and provide areas of open connectivity. The company also provides automatic number plate recognition camera systems; overhead guidance indicators; and Pay & Walk machines to pay for parking or validate vehicle's presence in the car park. It also offers parking management solutions to the retail sector, managing agents, and land owners. The company was formerly known as Car Parking Technologies Limited and changed its name to Smart Parking Limited in July 2013. Smart Parking Limited is based in Port Melbourne, Australia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Smart Parking is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 51.776% of Smart Parking shares are held by insiders and 12.393% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Smart Parking ?

  Smart Parking 's fiscal year ends in June.

• Where is Smart Parking based?

  Smart Parking 's address is: 845 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3207

• What is Smart Parking 's ISIN number?

  Smart Parking 's international securities identification number is: AU000000SPZ0