With 2.05 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.72 million shares. The 52-week range on BGS shows that it touched its highest point at $11.97 and its lowest point at $5.45 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.29. With its current market cap of 525.47 million, BGS has annualized dividend of $0.76 while the current yield stands at 11.45%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.51.
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 BGS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.48%, but this was up by 1.84% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.11% while six-month performance fell -21.79%. The stock lost -41.75% in the past year, while it has lost -3.63% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BGS yields -3.18 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.73. For the next quarter, that number is 0.16. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.45% for this year and 7.32% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 79.14 million BGS shares are outstanding with a float of 76.70 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BGS since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.71266 being high and $0.68296 being low. For BGS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.69286. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.11 and the low estimate is $0.05. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.08.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded BGS stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 1 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 11,027 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has risen to 1 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 11,027 shares were sold.
