With 97628.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 99580.0 shares. During the session, the Packaged Foods company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $34.97 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $34.115. The 52-week range on USNA shows that it touched its highest point at $52.75 and its lowest point at $31.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $51.50. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.88.
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 USNA was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.65%, but this was down by -6.35% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.13% while six-month performance fell -19.34%. The stock lost -31.53% in the past year, while it has lost -2.65% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for USNA yields 2.83 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.83. For the next quarter, that number is 0.49. This implies an EPS growth rate of -25.76% for this year and 15.51% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 12.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -8.43%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 19.06 million USNA shares are outstanding with a float of 11.22 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.48 million, which was 251.00000000000003 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Kevin G. Guest as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Jim Brown serves as its CEO & President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.57596 of USNA’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, USNA reported revenue of $200221000.0 and operating income of $15601000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $24216000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.56.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With USNA analysts setting a high price target of 65.0 and a low target of 38.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 51.5. Based on these targets, USNA could surge 86.03% to reach the target high and rise by 8.76% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 47.4% 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 $2.50021 being high and $2.39979 being low. For USNA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.45.
