With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.24 million shares. During the session, the Conglomerates company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $22.665 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $22.37. The 52-week range on DLX shows that it touched its highest point at $24.87 and its lowest point at $18.48 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $30.20. With its current market cap of 996.57 million, DLX has annualized dividend of $1.20 while the current yield stands at 5.33%. DLX paid its most recent dividend on 1731974400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731974400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.50.
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 DLX was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.13%, but this was down by -4.54% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 14.32% while six-month performance fell -5.70%. The stock gained 17.30% in the past year, while it has lost -0.35% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for DLX yields 1.24 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.37. For the next quarter, that number is 0.83. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.35% for this year and 4.01% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.75% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -28.40%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 44.27 million DLX shares are outstanding with a float of 43.50 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 2.5 million, which was 565.00003 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Barry C. McCarthy as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. William Zint serves as its CFO, Senior VP & VP of Corporate Finance.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.88853997 of DLX’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, DLX reported revenue of $528444000.0 and operating income of $54103000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $100214000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.2.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for DLX since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 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 DLX analysts setting a high price target of 38.0 and a low target of 25.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 30.75. Based on these targets, DLX could surge 68.81% to reach the target high and rise by 11.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 36.61% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.28369 being high and $3.19867 being low. For DLX, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.242. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.79 and the low estimate is $0.75. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.77.
