With 0.62 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.74 million shares. During the session, the Food Distribution company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $26.18 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $24.64. The 52-week range on UNFI shows that it touched its highest point at $34.76 and its lowest point at $8.58 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $30.80. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.10.
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 UNFI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.59%, but this was down by -1.60% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -8.75% while six-month performance rose 16.87%. The stock gained 175.61% in the past year, while it has lost -5.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for UNFI yields -1.38 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.39. For the next quarter, that number is 0.22. This implies an EPS growth rate of 491.27% for this year and 67.80% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 131.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 19.41%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 60.50 million UNFI shares are outstanding with a float of 58.95 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 3.92 million, which was 647.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. James Alexander Miller Douglas Jr. as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Giorgio Tarditi serves as its President & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.92081 of UNFI’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 2025-02-01, UNFI reported revenue of $8158000000.0 and operating income of $41000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $127000000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.05.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for UNFI since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 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 UNFI analysts setting a high price target of 33.0 and a low target of 25.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 30.0. Based on these targets, UNFI could surge 28.06% to reach the target high and fall by -2.99% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.41% 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 $0.14578 being high and -$0.03836417 being low. For UNFI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.046037. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.3 and the low estimate is $0.12. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.22.
