PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH)
Financials · Payments processing and embedded fintech · NASDAQ
Priority Technology Holdings is a leading fintech provider offering an end-to-end payments and embedded finance engine designed to accelerate cash flow and optimize working capital for businesses of all sizes.
What PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC does
Priority Technology Holdings is a payments and banking fintech platform that provides merchant acquiring, payables automation, and treasury management solutions to approximately 1.8 million customer accounts processing roughly $150 billion in annual transaction volume. The company operates through three segments: Merchant Solutions (full-service acquiring and payment-enabled solutions for B2C transactions), Payables (AP automation and working capital solutions), and Treasury Solutions (embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service offerings). Priority's proprietary commerce engine, delivered via APIs and proprietary applications, is designed to help customers collect, store, lend, and send money across their financial lifecycle while optimizing cash flow and working capital.
Themes: Merchant acquiring / payments processing, Payables automation / bill payment, Treasury management / working capital, Embedded finance / Banking-as-a-Service, Fintech / payments infrastructure, SMB and enterprise software platforms, Cash flow optimization
Fundamentals
- Price$5.61 as of 2026-08-21 close
- Market cap$462M as of 2026-08-21
- 1-year return-29.7% 2025-08-21 close $7.98 → 2026-08-21 close $5.61
- P/E8.21 as of 2026-08-25
- Net margin+5.6% as of 2026-08-25
- Gross margin+39.4% as of 2026-08-25
- ROE+3.4% as of 2026-08-25
- Debt / equity6.13 as of 2026-08-25
- Revenue growth (YoY)+8.9% as of 2026-08-25
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+12.8% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.68 as of 2026-08-25
- Last reported earnings2026-08-06 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
Dividend: does not currently pay a dividend.
How PRTH compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiobottom 25% 525 covered Financials peers, as of 2026-08-25
- net profit marginbottom 25% 538 covered Financials peers, as of 2026-08-25
- operating marginbottom 25% 534 covered Financials peers, as of 2026-08-25
- gross marginbottom 25% 176 covered Financials peers, as of 2026-08-25
- return on equitybottom 25% 575 covered Financials peers, as of 2026-08-25
- 3-year revenue CAGRmiddle range 347 covered Financials peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)middle range 431 covered Financials peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Financials companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Dividend coverage
Not assessed — last reported dividend predates the accounts. The most recent fiscal year in which PRTH reported a dividend payment is FY2024, while its reported financial statements run through FY2025. Coverage is therefore not assessed for the latest year — an FY2024 ratio would not describe PRTH today.
Coverage is derived from reported SEC EDGAR XBRL figures, comparing dividends paid against net income and free cash flow for the SAME fiscal year. It is not shown here because the latest fiscal year with a reported dividend payment (FY2024) is older than the latest year of reported financial statements (FY2025), so any ratio would describe an out-of-date year. Informational only — not financial advice.
How PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC looks technically
PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) is trading 3.2% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 37 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal. A trend is forming but not yet strong — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 25 (a reading of 25+ marks a strong trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 42, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 1 trading day ago (its momentum flipped positive). It made a new 20-day low about 8 trading days ago. It is 34.7% below its highest point of the past year.
Trend
8
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 3.2% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -3.1% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $6.44 | $6.44 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $5.79 | $5.79 |
| Swing structure | each recent peak has been lower than the one before it and each dip deeper — the pattern chart-watchers call a downtrend, which describes where price has already been and not where it goes next | lower highs and lower lows |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing low 9 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 9 sessions |
| Wave structure | its recent swings can be read as a five-part downward sequence — what Elliott-wave chartists call an impulse — now in the fourth leg, a pullback against that downward direction; the labelling fails if price closes above 6.11. It is one of several labellings that fit, and it describes the swings already printed, not what comes next. The same swings also read as a completed three-part correction. | possible downward five-wave sequence, in wave 4 (one of several readings) |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 37 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal | 37 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | a trend is forming but not yet strong — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 25 (a reading of 25+ marks a strong trend) | 24.5 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 42, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 41.9 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the lower half of its 14-day range ($5.10 to $6.80) — its "stochastic" reading is 30 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been steady within that range over the last few sessions. | 30.0 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bullish about 1 trading day ago (its momentum flipped positive) | 1 session |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $8.59 | $8.59 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 34.7% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -34.7% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 26.4% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +26.4% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 34.7% below its highest point of the past year | 34.7% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day low about 8 trading days ago | 8 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 8 trading days ago | 8 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $12.99 (set on 2018-08-06) | $12.99 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($4.64 to $8.43), and it has recovered roughly a quarter of its fall from last year’s high — 26% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $6.98 to $7.10. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 25.6% |
| From the all-time high | it is 56.8% below its all-time high | -56.8% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 2.3% above a support level at $5.48 — a price it turned at three times since 2025-12-10, most recently on 2026-05-20. Since 2024-08-21 it has 4 such levels below the current price and 11 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | -2.3% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $1.33 (set on 2020-05-12) | $1.33 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 322.6% above its all-time low | +322.6% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are unusually wide versus its own recent history (wider than about 99% of the past ~6 months) | 99th percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $0.3141 between its high and its low — about 5.6% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $0.3141 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $4.69 and $7.16 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $4.69 – $5.93 – $7.16 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 5.6% in a typical session — about typical for the companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 5.6% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 0.6 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (3.2% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 0.6 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 0.95× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts' average price target is unchanged from the prior reading | 0.0% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | not available for this company yet | n/a |
Candlestick patterns
1
| Since a doji | 2 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 2 sessions ago |
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Price gaps
3
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-21 0.9% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and traded back through that level before the close | +0.9% |
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| Open gap | it gapped 3.2% below the previous close 11 sessions ago and has not traded back through the level it left behind at 6.66 — an "unfilled gap", which describes a price range no trade has since crossed and is not a forecast that it will be crossed | -3.1% |
| Gap filled | a 3.6% gap up opened on 2026-06-15 has been "filled" 21 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it took 26 sessions to close | 21 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it closed higher in its latest session, after a session that did not close higher — a single up day rather than a run | 1 session up |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock lagged the market by 16.6 percentage points (the stock lost 14.2% while the market gained 2.3%) | -16.6% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 4.3 percentage points (the stock lost 1.2% while the market gained 3.1%) | -4.3% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 9.3 percentage points (the stock gained 1.8% while the market gained 11.1%) | -9.3% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 50.2 percentage points (the stock lost 29.7% while the market gained 20.5%) | -50.2% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 2 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bullish state: a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day, MACD momentum is positive — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 2 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 3 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: trading below its 200-day average, lagging the market over 6 months, trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 3 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 10% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-16 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is thick, spanning 8.3% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that has held for a while and takes effort to cross. | -10.5% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 6% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $5.94 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 155 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -5.5% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 4% above the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-08-06 (its 10-Q), so the typical buyer over that stretch is showing a gain. That average is $5.41 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 12 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +3.7% |
Price levels it has turned at before
PRTH last closed at $5.61 on 2026-08-21. Since 2024-08-21 it has turned at 4 prices below its last close and 11 above; the 3 nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.48 | Support | 2.3% below the last close | turned there three times · 2025-12-10 to 2026-05-20 |
| $5.94 | Resistance | 5.8% above the last close | turned there six times · 2024-10-02 to 2026-02-26 |
| $5.26 | Support | 6.2% below the last close | turned there twice · 2026-01-02 to 2026-02-23 |
| $5.11 | Support | 8.9% below the last close | turned there twice · 2026-02-05 to 2026-08-12 |
| $6.13 | Resistance | 9.2% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-11-28 to 2026-07-23 |
| $6.31 | Resistance | 12.5% above the last close | turned there twice · 2024-08-29 to 2026-05-11 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
Its recent swings can be read as a five-part downward sequence — what Elliott-wave chartists call an impulse — now in leg 4 of five, a pullback against that direction.
This labelling fails — stops being a possible reading at all — if it closes above $6.11.
This is one of several labellings that fit the same swings, so treat it as a reading rather than the reading. It was chosen from 2 labellings that survived the rules, counting shorter readings of the same bars.
On past moves of this shape the leg has usually ended somewhere between $5.56 and $6.08 — that is where it has tended to end if the count holds, not a forecast of where the price goes.
Alternate reading: The same swings also read as a completed three-part correction, which fails on a close below $5.10.
This reading has stood for 3 trading days, since 2026-08-19.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-21.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Pulled back from the 12-month high · MACD just crossed bullish (12/26/9) · lagging the market · Trading below the Ichimoku cloud · Elliott wave 4 pullbacks | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-21. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Mean price target$9.10 range $6.50 – $13.00; median $8.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-23. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for PRTH
- Consensus EPS estimate$0.265 next reporting period, as of 2026-08-23
Change over time is not available yet: it needs two readings of the same reporting period at least 30 days apart, and we have been recording these estimates since 2026-08-04. An estimate for a DIFFERENT quarter is not a revision, so a reading from before the last report is never compared with one after it.
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["High leverage and debt burden ($1.05 billion long-term debt) with stockholders' deficit of $81.8 million, creating refinancing and financial flexibility risks.","Competitive pressure from larger, better-capitalized payment processors (Global Payments, FIS, Fiserv) and high-growth fintech platforms (Square, Stripe, Bill.com) that may undercut pricing or capture market share.","Regulatory and compliance exposure including money transmission licensing, payment processing regulations, and embedded finance oversight across multiple jurisdictions."]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of PRTH's 10-Q filed 2026-05-11 against the prior one filed 2025-11-06.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Reworded:
- Reference to Form 10-K year changed from 'December 31, 2024' (filed 2025-11-06) to 'December 31, 2025' (filed 2026-05-11)
- Notes:
- Both texts appear truncated at the end ('other risks and uncertainties set forth in the "'). The comparison is limited to the content provided.
- The substantive forward-looking statements and risk factors listed are identical between both filings.
Risk Factors
The two filings could not be meaningfully compared for this section.
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
0 open-market purchases and 3 open-market sales by insiders in the last 90 days.
- Last 90 days0 buys · 3 sells ($23779) — 3 selling insiders
- Last 180 days0 buys · 3 sells ($23779) — 3 selling insiders
Activity heuristic: net selling (a transparent product heuristic from the counts above, not a prediction or advice)
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-07-01. As of 2026-08-25.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about PRTH's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
5 institutional 13F filers reported holding PRTH as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 5
- Reported shares held 2,261,377
- Reported value $10,673,699
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 2 new, 1 increased, 2 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
PRTH had 2,087,197 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
PRTH had 2.53% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 7.4 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 2,087,197
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 2.53%
- Prior settlement (shares) 2,170,282
- Reported change -3.83%
- Days to cover (reported) 7.4
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Global Payments (GPN)
- Worldpay (part of FIS)
- FIS (Fidelity National Information Services)
- Fiserv
- Square (SQ)
- Stripe
- Bill.com
- Rippling
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Frequently asked questions
What does PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) do?
Priority Technology Holdings is a payments and banking fintech platform that provides merchant acquiring, payables automation, and treasury management solutions to approximately 1.8 million customer accounts processing roughly $150 billion in annual transaction volume. The company operates through three segments: Merchant Solutions (full-service acquiring and payment-enabled solutions for B2C transactions), Payables (AP automation and working capital solutions), and Treasury Solutions (embedded…
What sector is PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) in?
PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) is classified in the Financials sector. Its industry is Payments processing and embedded fintech. It trades on NASDAQ.
Does PRTH pay a dividend?
No — PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) does not currently pay a dividend (market data, as of 2026-08-25). Informational only — not financial advice.
Who are PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC's (PRTH) competitors?
Notable peers of PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) include Global Payments, Worldpay (part of FIS), FIS (Fidelity National Information Services), Fiserv and Square. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) overbought or oversold right now?
PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS INC (PRTH) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 42, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-21). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on PRTH come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-25; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-25. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-21.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.