With 4.58 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 5.54 million shares. The 52-week range on VFC shows that it touched its highest point at $29.02 and its lowest point at $11.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.11. With its current market cap of 9.84 billion, VFC has annualized dividend of $0.36 while the current yield stands at 1.43%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.49.
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 VFC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.33%, but this was down by -1.48% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 30.90% while six-month performance rose 48.27%. The stock gained 58.11% in the past year, while it has gained 17.66% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VFC yields -0.84 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.11. For the next quarter, that number is -0.14. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.20% for this year and 50.33% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 389.54 million VFC shares are outstanding with a float of 367.40 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VFC since 18 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 9 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.
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 $1.15678 being high and $0.99442 being low. For VFC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.0756. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.04 and the low estimate is -$0.33. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.21.
