With 0.95 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.2 million shares. During the session, the Restaurants company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $140.1799 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $133.73. The 52-week range on EAT shows that it touched its highest point at $142.47 and its lowest point at $37.25 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $124.31. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.53.
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 EAT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.47%, but this was up by 7.45% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 65.11% while six-month performance rose 112.88%. The stock gained 237.98% in the past year, while it has gained 5.47% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EAT yields 4.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.72. For the next quarter, that number is 1.61. This implies an EPS growth rate of 43.51% for this year and 14.17% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 16.41% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -3.02%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 44.40 million EAT shares are outstanding with a float of 43.67 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 5.05 million, which was 1135.9999 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Ms. Aaron M. White as the firm’s Executive VP & Chief People Officer, Mr. George S. Felix serves as its Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer of Chili’s Grill & Bar.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.12455 of EAT’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 2024-09-25, EAT reported revenue of $1139000000.0 and operating income of $65300000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $106100000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.84.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EAT since 16 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 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 EAT analysts setting a high price target of 150.0 and a low target of 97.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 124.3125. Based on these targets, EAT could surge 7.51% to reach the target high and fall by -30.48% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -10.9% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.40333 being high and $3.9499 being low. For EAT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.21188.
