With 1.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.36 million shares. During the session, the Packaged Foods company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $56.13 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $54.255. The 52-week range on PPC shows that it touched its highest point at $57.16 and its lowest point at $33.67 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $49.43. PPC paid its most recent dividend on 1462492800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743638400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.52.
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 PPC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.15%, but this was up by 2.58% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 21.81% while six-month performance rose 20.09%. The stock gained 60.24% in the past year, while it has gained 21.83% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PPC yields 4.57 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.33. For the next quarter, that number is 1.36. This implies an EPS growth rate of -9.28% for this year and -11.96% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 237.12 million PPC shares are outstanding with a float of 41.26 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 7.93 million, which was 334.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Fabio Sandri as the firm’s President & CEO, Mr. Matthew R. Galvanoni serves as its VP, CFO & Chief Accounting Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.21258 of PPC’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 2024-12-29, PPC reported revenue of $4372064000.0 and operating income of $317969000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $444018000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PPC since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 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. With PPC analysts setting a high price target of 60.0 and a low target of 40.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 49.28571. Based on these targets, PPC could surge 8.5% to reach the target high and fall by -27.67% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -10.88% 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 $5.06698 being high and $5.0476 being low. For PPC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.05729. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.71 and the low estimate is $1.55. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.63.
