Boom Or Bust: Where Does Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (NASDAQ: WOOF) Stock Go From Here?

During the last session, Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (NASDAQ:WOOF)’s traded shares were 4.05 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.89. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $4.57, reflecting an intraday loss of -6.92% or -$0.34. The 52-week high for the WOOF share is $6.29, that puts it down -37.64 from that peak though still a striking 69.15% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $1.41. The company’s market capitalization is $1.26B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 6.97 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.14 million shares over the past three months.

Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.00. WOOF has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 11 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 7 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.01.

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Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (NASDAQ:WOOF) trade information

Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) registered a -6.92% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -6.92% in intraday trading to $4.57, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -6.73%, and it has moved by 4.58% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 41.05%. The short interest in Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (NASDAQ:WOOF) is 23.09 million shares and it means that shorts have 8.58 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4.55, which implies a decrease of -0.44% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $3.5 and $5.5 respectively. As a result, WOOF is trading at a discount of -20.35% off the target high and 23.41% off the low.

Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) shares have gone up 27.65% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -177.78% against -3.40. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -2.12% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 1.56B as predicted by 10 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 10 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 1.56B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 1.67B and 1.53B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -6.91% and then jump by 2.28% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -25.03%. While earnings are projected to return -188.09% in 2024, the next five years will return 1.57% per annum.

WOOF Dividends

Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in January. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (NASDAQ:WOOF)’s Major holders

Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc insiders own 4.39% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 128.50%, with the float percentage being 134.40%. CVC MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS II LTD. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 242.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 145.92 million shares (or 54.0925% of all shares), a total value of $551.59 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 59.77 million shares, is of CANADA PENSION PLAN INVESTMENT BOARD’s that is approximately 22.1544% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $225.91 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . Data provided on Sep 30, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 2.35 shares. This amounts to just over 0.99 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $10.73 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.14, or about 0.90% of the stock, which is worth about $9.77 million.