Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT) Shares Plunged -13.74% In A Week – But Can It Maintain Its Gains?

In recent trading session, Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT) saw 0.51 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.41. Company’s recent per share price level of $5.37 trading at $0.02 or 0.29% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $913.75M. That most recent trading price of DNUT’s stock is at a discount of -232.22% from its 52-week high price of $17.84 and is indicating a premium of 1.3% from its 52-week low price of $5.30. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 4.21 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 2.81 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Krispy Kreme Inc (DNUT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.10. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 5 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.05 in the current quarter.

Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT) trade information

Upright in the green today for gaining 0.29%, in the last five days DNUT remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 03/10/25 when the stock touched $5.37 price level, adding 12.97% to its value on the day. Krispy Kreme Inc’s shares saw a change of -45.97% in year-to-date performance and have moved -13.74% in past 5-day. Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT) showed a performance of -37.02% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 22.02 million shares which calculate 6.47 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 15 to the stock, which implies a rise of 64.2% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 14 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 16. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -160.71% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -160.71% for stock’s current value.

Krispy Kreme Inc (DNUT) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -1.96% from the last financial year’s standing.

7 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 385.11M for the same. And 7 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 396.25M in the next quarter. Company posted 442.7M and 438.81M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -47.28% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 56.42%.

Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 53.32% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 53.94 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 115.54%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 53.94% institutions for Krispy Kreme Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BAMCO INC /NY/ is the top institutional holder at DNUT for having 10.06 million shares of worth $108.2 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 5.9468 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 7.87 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 4.6676 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $84.72 million.

On the other hand, Baron Growth Fund and Baron Focused Growth Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024, the former fund manager was holding 5.96 shares of worth $32.22 million or 3.50% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 4.77 shares on Dec 31, 2024, making its stake of worth around $25.78 million in the company or a holder of 2.80% of company’s stock.