With 1.36 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.98 million shares. During the session, the Packaged Foods company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $7.99 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.68. The 52-week range on HLF shows that it touched its highest point at $15.66 and its lowest point at $6.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.70. HLF paid its most recent dividend on 1393545600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1393545600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.18.
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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 HLF was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -9.11%, but this was up by 12.57% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.08% while six-month performance fell -27.71%. The stock lost -37.95% in the past year, while it has lost -48.36% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HLF yields 0.85 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.02. For the next quarter, that number is 0.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of -21.58% for this year and 16.73% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 18.95% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -6.48%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 99.20 million HLF shares are outstanding with a float of 97.65 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 13.04 million, which was 1294.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Michael O. Johnson as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Stephan Paulo Gratziani serves as its President & Chief Strategy Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.08918 of HLF’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 2024-09-30, HLF reported revenue of $1240300000.0 and operating income of $127100000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $160600000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.46.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HLF since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 HLF analysts setting a high price target of 13.0 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.7. Based on these targets, HLF could surge 64.97% to reach the target high and fall by -11.17% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.1% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.74537 being high and $1.72532 being low. For HLF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.73312.
