A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: Pitney Bowes, Inc (PBI)

With 1.87 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.63 million shares. During the session, the Integrated Freight & Logistics company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $8.19 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.97. The 52-week range on PBI shows that it touched its highest point at $11.01 and its lowest point at $3.92 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $17.00. With its current market cap of 1.47 billion, PBI has annualized dividend of $0.21 while the current yield stands at 2.62%. PBI paid its most recent dividend on 1740096000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740096000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.47.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Three-month performance surged to 9.86% while six-month performance rose 15.23%. The stock gained 101.00% in the past year, while it has gained 10.77% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PBI yields 0.05 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.27. For the next quarter, that number is 0.27. This implies an EPS growth rate of 45.73% for this year and 6.69% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 182.41 million PBI shares are outstanding with a float of 180.10 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 11.56 million, which was 631.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Lance E. Rosenzweig as the firm’s CEO & Director, Ms. Debbie Pfeiffer serves as its Executive VP & President of Presort Services.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.69308 of PBI’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, PBI reported revenue of $516121000.0 and operating income of $134777000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $72591000.0 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 PBI analysts setting a high price target of 17.0 and a low target of 17.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 17.0. Based on these targets, PBI could surge 111.97% to reach the target high and rise by 111.97% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 111.97% 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 $0.38 being high and $0.38 being low. For PBI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.38. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.28 and the low estimate is $0.27. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.28.