With 3.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.46 million shares. During the session, the Packaged Foods company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $14.11 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.79. The 52-week range on JBS shows that it touched its highest point at $18.02 and its lowest point at $10.19 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.17. With its current market cap of 6.93 billion, JBS has annualized dividend of $1.41 while the current yield stands at 10.17%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.74.
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 JBS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.13%, but this was down by -0.79% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.08% while six-month performance rose 17.02%. The stock gained 16.33% in the past year, while it has gained 19.47% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for JBS yields 0.98 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.43. For the next quarter, that number is 0.44. This implies an EPS growth rate of 17.52% for this year and -22.82% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.89% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -4.60%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 501.76 million JBS shares are outstanding with a float of 462.07 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 16.51 million, which was 74.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Jeremiah Alphonsus O’Callaghan as the firm’s President of the Board & Member of Executive Board, Mr. Gilberto Tomazoni serves as its Global CEO & Member of Executive Board.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.009380001 of JBS’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 2025-03-31, JBS reported revenue of $114127485000.0 and operating income of $5682532000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $9764366000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.64.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With JBS analysts setting a high price target of 26.018122 and a low target of 18.410984, the average target price over the next 12 months is 21.132473. Based on these targets, JBS could surge 88.26% to reach the target high and rise by 33.22% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 52.91% 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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.61 and the low estimate is $1.95. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.92.
