PBF Energy Inc (NYSE: PBF): Can A Stock Be -45.31% Lower Year-To-Date And Still Be A Loser?

PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF)’s traded shares stood at 0.54 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.84. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $14.52, to imply a decrease of -2.81% or -$0.42 in intraday trading. The PBF share’s 52-week high remains $60.97, putting it -319.9% down since that peak but still an impressive 6.27% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $13.61. The company has a valuation of $1.68B, with an average of 4.87 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 3.01 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for PBF Energy Inc (PBF), translating to a mean rating of 3.31. Of 25 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 1 analyst(s) give PBF a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 6 advise Hold as 18 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -2.77.

PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF) trade information

After registering a -2.81% downside in the latest session, PBF Energy Inc (PBF) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -3.20%, and -26.18% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -45.31%. Short interest in PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF) saw shorts transact 15.49 million shares and set a 5.07 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $22 and $25 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, PBF has been trading -72.18% off suggested target high and -51.52% from its likely low.

PBF Energy Inc (PBF) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -11.32% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 9 analysts is 6.62B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 9 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 7.43B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 8.65B and 8.74B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -23.41% before dropping -14.92% in the following quarter.

PBF Dividends

PBF Energy Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-12. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. PBF Energy Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 1.05, with the share yield ticking at 7.23% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 5.16%.

PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF)’s Major holders

PBF Energy Inc insiders hold 28.17% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 76.76% of the shares at 106.86% float percentage. In total, 76.76% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 14.7 million shares (or 12.5569% of shares), all amounting to roughly $676.35 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 11.3 million shares, or about 9.4235% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $519.82 million.

We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the PBF Energy Inc (PBF) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF holds roughly 3.2 shares. This is just over 2.77% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $46.97 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 2.73, or 2.36% of the shares, all valued at about 40.07 million.