Let’s Start With The Stock Forecast For Five Below Inc (NASDAQ: FIVE)

In the last trading session, 3.81 million Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.95. With the company’s per share price at $55.75 changed hands at -$5.13 or -8.43% during last session, the market valuation stood at $3.07B. FIVE’s last price was a discount, traded about -194.26% 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 6.04% up since then. When we look at Five Below Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.96 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’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.57.

Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) trade information

Instantly FIVE was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -27.11%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -46.88%, with the 5-day performance at -27.11% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) is -28.39% 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 47.65% from its current 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 -151.12% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -34.53% for it to hit the projected low.

Five Below Inc (FIVE) estimates and forecasts

Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 10.70% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 19 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 915M. 19 analysts are of the opinion that Five Below Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 936.69M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 811.86M and 830.07M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 12.70%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 12.84%.

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 Dividends

Five Below Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Mar-18.

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 $99.71 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 $97.23 million.