During the last session, Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE:BNED)’s traded shares were 0.36 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.89. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $10.10, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.81% or -$0.4. The 52-week high for the BNED share is $135.00, that puts it down -1236.63 from that peak though still a striking 40.1% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $6.05. The company’s market capitalization is $343.95M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.34 million shares, and the average trade volume was 413.02K shares over the past three months.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.00. BNED has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 1 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 0 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 -0.81.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE:BNED) trade information
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) registered a -3.81% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.81% in intraday trading to $10.10, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 2.64%, and it has moved by 4.45% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -84.08%. The short interest in Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE:BNED) is 0.92 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.22 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $2.38, which implies a decrease of -324.37% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $0.75 and $4 respectively. As a result, BNED is trading at a premium of 60.4% off the target high and 92.57% off the low.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 0.70% 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 244.61M as predicted by 1 analyst(s).
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -19.60%. While earnings are projected to return 86.63% in 2025.
BNED Dividends
Barnes & Noble Education Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Mar-09. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE:BNED)’s Major holders
Barnes & Noble Education Inc insiders own 13.59% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 67.21%, with the float percentage being 77.78%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 85.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 0.12 million shares (or 0.8632% of all shares), a total value of $0.75 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 77500.0 shares, is of DCF ADVISERS, LLC’s that is approximately 0.5736% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $0.5 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) shares are World Funds Trust-Philotimo Focused Growth and Income Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that World Funds Trust-Philotimo Focused Growth and Income Fund owns about 600.43 shares. This amounts to just over 1.76 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $6.06 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 471.2, or about 1.38% of the stock, which is worth about $4.76 million.
