With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.34 million shares. During the session, the Food Distribution company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $27.52 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $27.01. The 52-week range on CVGW shows that it touched its highest point at $30.02 and its lowest point at $20.30 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $35.00. With its current market cap of 490.34 million, CVGW has annualized dividend of $0.90 while the current yield stands at 3.27%. CVGW paid its most recent dividend on 1751241600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1751241600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.41.
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 CVGW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.50%, but this was up by 1.36% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 16.93% while six-month performance rose 7.76%. The stock gained 7.80% in the past year, while it has gained 22.78% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CVGW yields 0.57 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.98. For the next quarter, that number is 0.54. This implies an EPS growth rate of 60.95% for this year and 16.86% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 17.84 million CVGW shares are outstanding with a float of 16.63 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 1.11 million, which was 623.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Lecil E. Cole as the firm’s CEO & President, Mr. Michael A. Browne serves as its Executive Vice President of Sales & Operations.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.73620003 of CVGW’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 2025-04-30, CVGW reported revenue of $190546000.0 and operating income of $7630000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $10864000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.38.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CVGW analysts setting a high price target of 35.0 and a low target of 35.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 35.0. Based on these targets, CVGW could surge 27.32% to reach the target high and rise by 27.32% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 27.32% 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 $1.37832 being high and $1.30187 being low. For CVGW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.34. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.54 and the low estimate is $0.3. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.42.
