Top investors say Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV ADR (BUD) ticks everything they need

With 3.58 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.46 million shares. During the session, the Beverages – Brewers company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $49.79 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $49.075. The 52-week range on BUD shows that it touched its highest point at $67.49 and its lowest point at $45.94 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $67.39. With its current market cap of 86.06 billion, BUD has annualized dividend of $0.88 while the current yield stands at 1.79%. BUD paid its most recent dividend on 1714694400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1714694400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.08.

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 BUD was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.63%, but this was down by -1.21% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -23.11% while six-month performance fell -17.34%. The stock lost -21.24% in the past year, while it has lost -1.78% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BUD yields 2.89 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.53. For the next quarter, that number is 0.69. This implies an EPS growth rate of 9.88% for this year and 5.31% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.17% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.67%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 1.75 billion BUD shares are outstanding with a float of 1.75 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 4.12 million, which was 21.0 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Michel Dimitrios Doukeris as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Fernando Mommensohn Tennenbaum serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.06039 of BUD’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, BUD reported revenue of $15046000000.0 and operating income of $4091000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $4041000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.03.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BUD since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 BUD analysts setting a high price target of 90.0 and a low target of 55.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 69.75. Based on these targets, BUD could surge 83.0% to reach the target high and rise by 11.83% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 41.83% 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 $3.53047 being high and $3.25201 being low. For BUD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.35146.

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