With 0.53 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.65 million shares. The 52-week range on JBTM shows that it touched its highest point at $139.05 and its lowest point at $82.64 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $136.83. With its current market cap of 6.80 billion, JBTM has annualized dividend of $0.40 while the current yield stands at 0.30%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.12.
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 JBTM was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.02%, but this was up by 1.64% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.08% while six-month performance rose 45.99%. The stock gained 28.88% in the past year, while it has gained 3.19% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for JBTM yields 2.65 with Next year EPS estimates of 7.12. For the next quarter, that number is 0.84. This implies an EPS growth rate of 12.90% for this year and 23.65% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 19.62% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -8.03%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 51.88 million JBTM shares are outstanding with a float of 47.99 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.32 and the low estimate is $0.74. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.12.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded JBTM 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.
