With 2.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.34 million shares. The 52-week range on FUN shows that it touched its highest point at $58.70 and its lowest point at $35.93 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $55.42. With its current market cap of 3.62 billion, FUN has annualized dividend of $0.30 while the current yield stands at 0.83%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.18.
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 FUN was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -16.99%, but this was down by -20.42% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -25.47% while six-month performance fell -17.29%. The stock lost -15.70% in the past year, while it has lost -25.25% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FUN yields -3.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.52. For the next quarter, that number is -2.18. This implies an EPS growth rate of 152.74% for this year and 48.68% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 100.35 million FUN shares are outstanding with a float of 97.85 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 FUN since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 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 $0.94816 being high and $0.37305 being low. For FUN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.64506. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.19 and the low estimate is $1.01. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.1.
