In the latest trading session, 0.54 million Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.95. With the company’s most recent per share price at $62.44 changing hands around $1.56 or 2.56% at last look, the market valuation stands at $3.44B. FIVE’s current price is a discount, trading about -162.73% off its 52-week high of $164.05. The share price had its 52-week low at $52.38, which suggests the last value was 16.11% up since then. When we look at Five Below Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.75 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.18 million.
Analysts gave the Five Below Inc (FIVE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.25. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 16 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 7 recommended FIVE as a Hold, 9 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) trade information
Instantly FIVE is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action -18.36%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -40.51%, with the 5-day performance at -18.36% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) is -19.79% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 4.69 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.87 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 106.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 41.37% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, FIVE’s forecast low is 75 with 140 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -124.22% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -20.12% for it to hit the projected low.
Five Below Inc (FIVE) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 8.09%. The 2025 estimates are for Five Below Inc earnings to decrease by -11.81%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 3.65% per year.
Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.40% of Five Below Inc shares while 106.74% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 109.37%. There are 106.74% institutions holding the Five Below Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.1789% of the shares, roughly 5.05 million FIVE shares worth $550.4 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.1626% or 5.05 million shares worth $550.83 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Feb 28, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc. With 1.79 shares estimated at $110.03 million under it, the former controlled 3.25% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc. held about 3.17% of the shares, roughly 1.74 shares worth around $107.3 million.
