With 0.57 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.74 million shares. During the session, the Integrated Freight & Logistics company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $27.24 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $25.9279. The 52-week range on FWRD shows that it touched its highest point at $40.92 and its lowest point at $9.78 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $34.67. FWRD paid its most recent dividend on 1700524800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1700524800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.41.
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 FWRD was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.60%, but this was up by 49.03% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 79.33% while six-month performance fell -16.87%. The stock lost -16.87% in the past year, while it has gained 38.62% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FWRD yields -29.61 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.18. For the next quarter, that number is -0.26. This implies an EPS growth rate of 96.41% for this year and 116.72% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 30.41 million FWRD shares are outstanding with a float of 20.58 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 3.84 million, which was 1262.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Jérôme Jean-Pierre Lorrain as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Shawn Stewart serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.12532 of FWRD’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, FWRD reported revenue of $613281000.0 and operating income of $4763000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $42227000.0 and diluted EPS was -$1.68.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for FWRD since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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 FWRD analysts setting a high price target of 40.0 and a low target of 29.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 34.66667. Based on these targets, FWRD could surge 49.2% to reach the target high and rise by 8.17% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 29.3% 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 -$0.69137 being high and -$0.74105 being low. For FWRD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.715.
