With 1.32 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.71 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Industrial Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $175.46 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $170.36. The 52-week range on MIDD shows that it touched its highest point at $177.90 and its lowest point at $118.41 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $180.43. MIDD paid its most recent dividend on 1086134400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1086134400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.64.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MIDD was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 17.86%, but this was up by 25.68% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 22.38% while six-month performance rose 26.91%. The stock gained 18.53% in the past year, while it has gained 26.73% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MIDD yields 7.26 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.02. For the next quarter, that number is 2.56. This implies an EPS growth rate of -5.28% for this year and 9.05% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.90% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 5.38%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 53.77 million MIDD shares are outstanding with a float of 53.08 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 2.72 million, which was 505.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Timothy J. FitzGerald CPA as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Bryan E. Mittelman CPA serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.04365 of MIDD’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-28, MIDD reported revenue of $942809000.0 and operating income of $175958000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $209375000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.11.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MIDD since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With MIDD analysts setting a high price target of 227.0 and a low target of 134.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 180.42857. Based on these targets, MIDD could surge 32.24% to reach the target high and fall by -21.94% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 5.11% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $9.32883 being high and $9.03668 being low. For MIDD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $9.18779.
