Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ:FARM)’s traded shares stood at 0.32 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.79. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $2.31, to imply a decrease of -12.33% or -$0.32 in intraday trading. The FARM share’s 52-week high remains $4.04, putting it -74.89% down since that peak but still an impressive 19.48% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $1.86. The company has a valuation of $49.11M, with an average of 62390.0 shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 46.18K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Farmer Bros. Co. (FARM), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 1 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give FARM a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 1 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.26.

Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ:FARM) trade information

After registering a -12.33% downside in the last session, Farmer Bros. Co. (FARM) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -12.50%, and -7.97% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -24.51%. Short interest in Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ:FARM) saw shorts transact 52750.0 shares and set a 1.23 days time to cover.

Farmer Bros. Co. (FARM) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Farmer Bros. Co. share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Farmer Bros. Co. (FARM) shares are -32.26% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 16.07% against 6.50%. Revenue is forecast to shrink -333.30% this quarter before falling -153.80% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 2.60% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 1 analysts is 84.32M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 1 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 91.35M.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 46.82% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a -210.53% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 30.00% annually.

FARM Dividends

Farmer Bros. Co. has its next earnings report out on 2024-Nov-07. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 2.36%.

Farmer Bros. Co. (NASDAQ:FARM)’s Major holders

Farmer Bros. Co. insiders hold 21.03% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 41.71% of the shares at 52.81% float percentage. In total, 41.71% institutions holds shares in the company, led by 22NW, LP. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 1.96 million shares (or 9.2658% of shares), all amounting to roughly $5.24 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is JCP INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC with 0.99 million shares, or about 4.7043% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $2.66 million.

We also have EQ Advisors Trust-1290 VT Gamco Small Company Value Port and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Farmer Bros. Co. (FARM) shares. Going by data provided on Jun 30, 2024 , EQ Advisors Trust-1290 VT Gamco Small Company Value Port holds roughly 587.0 shares. This is just over 2.76% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.36 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 511.92, or 2.41% of the shares, all valued at about 1.18 million.