StepStone Group Inc (STEP) stock expected to decline by -0.23%: What’s driving the pessimism?

Abby Carey

A share price of StepStone Group Inc [STEP] is currently trading at $73.5, up 1.39%. It is a good measure of the stock’s recent performance to check whether the stock’s short-term value is rising or falling. The STEP shares have gain 6.54% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 14.13%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.

From an analyst’s perspective:

StepStone Group Inc [NASDAQ: STEP] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on October 03, 2025, when BMO Capital Markets initiated its Outperform rating and assigned the stock a price target of $74. Previously, Goldman upgraded its rating to Buy on September 18, 2025, and kept the price target unchanged to $83. On April 11, 2024, upgrade upgraded it’s rating to Overweight and revised its price target to $49 on the stock. Oppenheimer started tracking the stock assigning an Outtperform rating and suggested a price target of $48 on March 20, 2024. BofA Securities initiated its recommendation with a Buy and recommended $42 as its price target on September 07, 2022. Barclays started tracking with a Equal Weight rating for this stock on August 31, 2022, and assigned it a price target of $33. In a note dated July 19, 2022, Morgan Stanley downgraded an Equal-Weight rating on this stock and revised its target price from $46 to $30.

StepStone Group Inc experienced fluctuations in its stock price throughout the past year between $39.79 and $74.44. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $73.33 within the next 12 months. StepStone Group Inc [NASDAQ: STEP] shares were valued at $73.5 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential drop of -0.23% based on the average STEP price forecast.

Analyzing the STEP fundamentals

Trailing Twelve Months sales for StepStone Group Inc [NASDAQ:STEP] were 1.54B which represents 66.42% growth. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.07% with Operating Profit Margin at -0.75%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at -0.67%, and Net Profit Margin reading is -0.4%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at -0.12, Equity is -7.95 and Total Capital is -0.33. An extended analysis of the company’s primary financial structure reveals a debt-to-equity ratio of-1.63.

Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance.

Ratios To Look Out For

To put it in perspective, the Current Ratio for StepStone Group Inc [NASDAQ:STEP] is 0.15. Further, the Quick Ratio stands at 0.15, while the Cash Ratio is 0.2. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 5.64.

Transactions by insiders

Recent insider trading involved Hart Scott W, Chief Executive Officer, that happened on Dec 26 ’25 when 10000.0 shares were sold. Head of Strategy, McCabe Michael I completed a deal on Dec 10 ’25 to sell 0.12 million shares. Meanwhile, Head of Strategy McCabe Michael I sold 74214.0 shares on Dec 10 ’25.

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