With 1.66 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.94 million shares. The 52-week range on PLAY shows that it touched its highest point at $69.82 and its lowest point at $19.07 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $38.43. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.86.
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 PLAY was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -17.41%, but this was down by -28.54% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -49.55% while six-month performance fell -39.05%. The stock lost -69.26% in the past year, while it has lost -34.98% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PLAY yields 2.03 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.95. For the next quarter, that number is 0.72. This implies an EPS growth rate of -30.82% for this year and 47.85% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.44% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.36%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 38.50 million PLAY shares are outstanding with a float of 37.76 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 PLAY since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 $3.214 being high and $3.06046 being low. For PLAY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.13211. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.49 and the low estimate is $1.12. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.28.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded PLAY 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.
