With 0.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.44 million shares. During the session, the Aerospace & Defense company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $26.63 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $25.81. The 52-week range on ATRO shows that it touched its highest point at $26.59 and its lowest point at $14.13 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.50. ATRO paid its most recent dividend on 1351123200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 759456000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.29.
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 ATRO was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.71%, but this was up by 30.31% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 63.69% while six-month performance rose 29.02%. The stock gained 41.28% in the past year, while it has gained 62.97% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ATRO yields -0.46 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.66. For the next quarter, that number is 0.27. This implies an EPS growth rate of 346.74% for this year and 45.81% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 30.18 million ATRO shares are outstanding with a float of 29.50 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 2.5 million, which was 710.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Peter J. Gundermann as the firm’s Chairman, CEO & President, Mr. James S. Kramer serves as its Executive VP & President of Luminescent Systems Inc..
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.80947 of ATRO’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 2024-12-31, ATRO reported revenue of $208540000.0 and operating income of $8876000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $17931000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With ATRO analysts setting a high price target of 30.0 and a low target of 17.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 23.33333. Based on these targets, ATRO could surge 15.34% to reach the target high and fall by -34.64% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -10.29% 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 $0.31532 being high and $0.30686 being low. For ATRO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.31. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.38 and the low estimate is $0.31. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.34.
