With 0.7 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.3 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Retail company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $427.615 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $417.38. The 52-week range on CASY shows that it touched its highest point at $445.17 and its lowest point at $306.45 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $441.25. With its current market cap of 15.81 billion, CASY has annualized dividend of $1.93 while the current yield stands at 0.45%. CASY paid its most recent dividend on 1738540800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1746057600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.78.
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 CASY was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.91%, but this was up by 0.77% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 5.67% while six-month performance rose 12.72%. The stock gained 34.56% in the past year, while it has gained 7.51% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CASY yields 14.35 with Next year EPS estimates of 15.79. For the next quarter, that number is 2.04. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.59% for this year and 12.40% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.06% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 19.49%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 37.12 million CASY shares are outstanding with a float of 36.90 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 1.24 million, which was 340.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Darren M. Rebelez as the firm’s President, CEO & Board Chair, Mr. Stephen P. Bramlage Jr. serves as its Senior VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.8972 of CASY’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-01-31, CASY reported revenue of $3903633000.0 and operating income of $137165000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $242368000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.33.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CASY since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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. With CASY analysts setting a high price target of 485.0 and a low target of 305.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 427.36667. Based on these targets, CASY could surge 13.85% to reach the target high and fall by -28.4% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 0.32% from current levels.
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 $12.94892 being high and $12.53736 being low. For CASY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $12.82846. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $5.36 and the low estimate is $4.72. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $5.07.
