With 0.97 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.57 million shares. The 52-week range on FWRD shows that it touched its highest point at $40.92 and its lowest point at $11.21 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $36.00. 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 FWRD was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -18.00%, but this was down by -31.50% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -37.41% while six-month performance fell -30.49%. The stock lost -42.40% in the past year, while it has lost -30.08% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FWRD yields -30.75 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.65. For the next quarter, that number is -0.44. This implies an EPS growth rate of 98.26% for this year and 226.54% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 29.76 million FWRD shares are outstanding with a float of 19.88 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 FWRD since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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.
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 -$0.68313 being high and -$0.7668 being low. For FWRD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.715. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.16 and the low estimate is -$0.51. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.13.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded FWRD stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
