Conagra Brands Inc (CAG): What Are The Positives?

Conagra Brands Inc (NYSE:CAG) has a beta value of 0.38 and has seen 4.32 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $14.95B, closed the last trade at $31.28 per share which meant it 0.00% during that session. The CAG stock price is -23.82% off its 52-week high price of $38.73 and 19.57% above the 52-week low of $25.16. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 6.32 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 4.92 million shares.

Conagra Brands Inc (NYSE:CAG) trade information

The stock has traded in the green over the last five days, when the CAG stock price touched $31.28 or saw a rise of 0.92%. Year-to-date, Conagra Brands Inc shares have moved 9.14%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 5.85%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Conagra Brands Inc (NYSE:CAG) have changed 11.20%. Short interest in the company has seen 11.37 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.58.

Conagra Brands Inc (CAG) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Conagra Brands Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 18.44% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of -5.42%, compared to 7.30% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, lowered its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are -8.10% and -1.50% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -1.70%.

12 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $2.93 billion for the current quarter. 9 have an estimated revenue figure of $2.9 billion for the next quarter concluding in Aug 2024.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -6.45% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest -5.06% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 0.62%.

CAG Dividends

Conagra Brands Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on April 04 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.38 at a share yield of 4.41%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.

Conagra Brands Inc (NYSE:CAG)’s Major holders

Insiders own 0.48% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 86.96% with a share float percentage of 87.38%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Conagra Brands Inc having a total of 1,181 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Vanguard Group Inc with over 58.4 million shares worth more than $1.97 billion. As of Jun 29, 2023, Vanguard Group Inc held 12.22% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., with the holding of over 44.04 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.48 billion and represent 9.21% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 3.11% shares in the company for having 14.86 million shares of worth $501.03 million while later fund manager owns 11.36 million shares of worth $382.9 million as of Jun 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 2.38% of company’s outstanding stock.