Portillos Inc (NASDAQ:PTLO) Gained 18.49% In A Week: What’s Driving The Stock?

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In last trading session, Portillos Inc (NASDAQ:PTLO) saw 1.53 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.87. Company’s recent per share price level of $13.97 trading at -$0.51 or -3.52% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.04B. That closing price of PTLO’s stock is at a discount of -15.75% from its 52-week high price of $16.17 and is indicating a premium of 40.01% from its 52-week low price of $8.38. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.15 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.56 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Portillos Inc (PTLO), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.64. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 6 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 5 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.06 in the current quarter.

Portillos Inc (NASDAQ:PTLO) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -3.52%, in the last five days PTLO remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 01/29/25 when the stock touched $13.97 price level, adding 5.1% to its value on the day. Portillos Inc’s shares saw a change of 48.62% in year-to-date performance and have moved 18.49% in past 5-day. Portillos Inc (NASDAQ:PTLO) showed a performance of 55.05% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 7.81 million shares which calculate 4.1 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 13 to the stock, which implies a fall of -7.46% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 13 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 20. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 6.94% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 6.94% for stock’s current value.

Portillos Inc (PTLO) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Portillos Inc is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 40.40% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -5.41% while that of industry is 6.40. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2025. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 4.73% from the last financial year’s standing.

10 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 185.87M for the same. And 7 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 182.1M in the next quarter. Company posted 187.86M and 165.83M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 3.35% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 14.64%.

Portillos Inc (NASDAQ:PTLO)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 6.97% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 91.36 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 98.21%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 91.36% institutions for Portillos Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BERKSHIRE PARTNERS LLC is the top institutional holder at PTLO for having 5.92 million shares of worth $57.57 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.3117 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is ORBIS ALLAN GRAY LTD, which was holding about 5.45 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.4895 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $52.98 million.