PENN Entertainment Inc (PENN) Investors Will See A Big Return Again

PENN Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PENN) has a beta value of 2.07 and has seen 0.65 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $2.67B, closed the recent trade at $17.50 per share which meant it -0.03% during that session. The PENN stock price is -80.74% off its 52-week high price of $31.63 and 5.94% above the 52-week low of $16.46. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 4.87 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 5.55 million shares.

PENN Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PENN) trade information

Sporting -0.03% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, when the PENN stock price touched $17.50 or saw a rise of 8.14%. Year-to-date, PENN Entertainment Inc shares have moved -32.76%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -8.07%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of PENN Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PENN) have changed 1.30%. Short interest in the company has seen 25.56 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.91.

PENN Entertainment Inc (PENN) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that PENN Entertainment Inc shares have outperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have lost -26.34% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 74.53%, compared to 8.50% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, increased its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are -118.00% and -83.30% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 7.80%.

15 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $1.66 billion for the current quarter. 15 have an estimated revenue figure of $1.7 billion for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024. Year-ago sales stood $1.59 billion and $1.67 billion respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 4.00% for the current quarter and 1.80% for the next.

Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 81.11% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 9.09%.

PENN Dividends

PENN Entertainment Inc is expected to release its next earnings report between May 02 and May 06 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

PENN Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ:PENN)’s Major holders

Insiders own 1.01% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 91.54% with a share float percentage of 92.47%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with PENN Entertainment Inc having a total of 519 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are FMR, LLC with over 14.82 million shares worth more than $258.98 million. As of Dec 30, 2023, FMR, LLC held 9.72% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is Vanguard Group Inc, with the holding of over 14.73 million shares as of Dec 30, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $257.48 million and represent 9.66% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Core S&P Midcap ETF. As of Dec 30, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 3.14% shares in the company for having 4.79 million shares of worth $83.69 million while later fund manager owns 4.6 million shares of worth $80.4 million as of Jan 30, 2024, which makes it owner of about 3.02% of company’s outstanding stock.