Coursera, Inc. (COUR)
Consumer Defensive
- Fundamental
- 3
- Sentiment
- 2
- Technical
- 2
Do Nothing: qualitativeScore is 2 (below the required floor of 3) — the strategy requires qualitativeScore ≥ 3 before any bullish entry, and the shadow branch is not eligible (flag rendered false); the chart is additionally weak (technicalScore 2/5, bounce-only in a downtrend below all moving averages), so no pullback limit or breakout stop entry is evaluated.
Company overview
Coursera, Inc. operates an online learning platform offering education and skills training globally. The company provides guided projects, courses, degrees, and certificates across various domains through multiple segments, serving individuals, businesses, and institutions. Founded in 2011, Coursera is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Fundamental
fairCoursera has strong revenue growth and liquidity but faces execution risks and ongoing GAAP losses.
Mixed (Score 3): Strong historical revenue growth and a large net-cash cushion, plus very low enterprise-value multiples, but ongoing GAAP losses and the just-completed Udemy integration add meaningful execution risk. Liquidity is solid (10-Q: ~$871.7M cash; current ratio ~1.59) with no going-concern language, yet risk signals like a low Altman Z-Score (0.58) keep this out of the “solid 4/5” bucket for now.
Sentiment
weakSentiment is speculative with no confirmed market reward for recent product announcements.
Forming, weak setup anchored by the announced Project Helix AI-platform preview (2026-09-09, Business Wire, announced confidence) whose third-party reception is constructive but question-framed and unconfirmed by tape (stock −26% YTD); the numeric sentiment delta is indeterminate because both analyzer windows returned only zero-signal company content-marketing, with an item-level scoring-window read that is mildly constructive, and Reddit velocity indeterminate. Red-Flag Screen clean; with no demonstrated market reward and no forward-dated catalyst, the setup stays in the weak/forming band.
Technical
weakThe stock is in a downtrend, with a recent oversold bounce unconfirmed by key technical indicators.
COUR closed 2026-09-21 at 5.16 (+2.38%) after printing a fresh 52-week low of 4.98 intraday and bouncing on above-average volume (6.54M shares). The bounce is unconfirmed: price sits below every key moving average (sma20 5.72, sma50 5.69, sma200 6.08, ema9 5.29, ema21 5.53), MACD is negative and below its signal (-0.20/-0.11, histogram -0.08), rsi14 is 38.47, and adx14 21.05 reads as a moderate DOWN trend with price below all MAs. Williams %R -87.84 is oversold — the only constructive momentum reading besides today's reversal candle. This is a bounce-only signature in a live downtrend: technicalScore 2/5.
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