Sweetgreen Inc (NYSE: SG): Why Investors Shouldn’t Ditch SG Stock In 2024

In the latest trading session, 1.1 million Sweetgreen Inc (NYSE:SG) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.34. With the company’s most recent per share price at $36.19 changing hands around $0.24 or 0.67% at last look, the market valuation stands at $4.13B. SG’s current price is a discount, trading about -6.47% off its 52-week high of $38.53. The share price had its 52-week low at $8.64, which suggests the last value was 76.13% up since then. When we look at Sweetgreen Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 2.58 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.44 million.

Analysts gave the Sweetgreen Inc (SG) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.55. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 9 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 3 recommended SG as a Hold, 6 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Sweetgreen Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.13.

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Sweetgreen Inc (NYSE:SG) trade information

Instantly SG is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 1.00%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 220.27%, with the 5-day performance at 1.00% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Sweetgreen Inc (NYSE:SG) is 14.42% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 16.84 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.38 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 36, meaning bulls need a downside of -0.53% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, SG’s forecast low is 12 with 45 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -24.34% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 66.84% for it to hit the projected low.

Sweetgreen Inc (SG) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Sweetgreen Inc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 42.71% over the past 6 months, a 22.68% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 2.80%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 16.50% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 10 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 175.92M. 10 analysts are of the opinion that Sweetgreen Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 162.14M. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 6.00%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -12.71%. The 2024 estimates are for Sweetgreen Inc earnings to increase by 29.90%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 27.00% per year.

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Sweetgreen Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in October.

Sweetgreen Inc (NYSE:SG)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.87% of Sweetgreen Inc shares while 94.11% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 96.89%. There are 94.11% institutions holding the Sweetgreen Inc stock share, with BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 10.9302% of the shares, roughly 12.33 million SG shares worth $371.52 million.

FMR LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.7276% or 10.97 million shares worth $330.64 million as of 2024-06-30.