Are Smart Investors Making the Right Decision? ODP Corporation (ODP)

With 0.17 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.57 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Retail company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $24.22 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $23.785. The 52-week range on ODP shows that it touched its highest point at $58.98 and its lowest point at $23.69 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $41.33. ODP paid its most recent dividend on 1582848000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1582848000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.40.

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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 ODP was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -9.38%, but this was down by -11.74% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -15.90% while six-month performance fell -38.75%. The stock lost -57.54% in the past year, while it has lost -57.26% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ODP yields -0.80 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.90. For the next quarter, that number is 0.80. This implies an EPS growth rate of -42.35% for this year and 20.88% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.66%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 31.20 million ODP shares are outstanding with a float of 28.83 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 3.04 million, which was 1009.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Gerry P. Smith as the firm’s CEO & Executive Director, Ms. Zoe U. Maloney serves as its Executive VP & Chief Human Resources Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.09863 of ODP’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, ODP reported revenue of $1780000000.0 and operating income of $41000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $64000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.73.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ODP since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 ODP analysts setting a high price target of 61.0 and a low target of 28.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 41.33333. Based on these targets, ODP could surge 153.53% to reach the target high and rise by 16.38% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 71.79% from current levels.

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 $3.26472 being high and $3.17894 being low. For ODP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.2285. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.35 and the low estimate is $0.91. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.15.