In the last trading session, 1.49 million National Vision Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:EYE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.26. With the company’s per share price at $12.08 changed hands at $0.02 or 0.17% during last session, the market valuation stood at $951.70M. EYE’s last price was a discount, traded about -92.55% off its 52-week high of $23.26. The share price had its 52-week low at $9.56, which suggests the last value was 20.86% up since then. When we look at National Vision Holdings Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.52 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.45 million.
Analysts gave the National Vision Holdings Inc (EYE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.36. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended EYE as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. National Vision Holdings Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.32.
National Vision Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:EYE) trade information
Instantly EYE was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -1.15%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 15.93%, with the 5-day performance at -1.15% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, National Vision Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:EYE) is -2.82% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.47 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.75 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 12.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 3.36% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, EYE’s forecast low is 11 with 14 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -15.89% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 8.94% for it to hit the projected low.
National Vision Holdings Inc (EYE) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 5.49% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 9 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 510.3M. 9 analysts are of the opinion that National Vision Holdings Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 466.73M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 560.91M and 451.73M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -9.02%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 3.32%.
The 2025 estimates are for National Vision Holdings Inc earnings to increase by 10.81%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 13.79% per year.
EYE Dividends
National Vision Holdings Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-25.
National Vision Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:EYE)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.13% of National Vision Holdings Inc shares while 105.38% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 107.67%. There are 105.38% institutions holding the National Vision Holdings Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 17.7383% of the shares, roughly 13.9 million EYE shares worth $182.0 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 11.7783% or 9.23 million shares worth $120.85 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jan 31, 2025 were iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 5.08 shares estimated at $61.35 million under it, the former controlled 6.45% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 3.14% of the shares, roughly 2.47 shares worth around $29.9 million.
