Brinker International, Inc (NYSE: EAT) Surprises Wall Street With 4.83% Stock Price Gain

Brinker International, Inc (NYSE:EAT) has a beta value of 1.57 and has seen 1.83 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $6.97B, closed the last trade at $156.89 per share which meant it gained $7.23 on the day or 4.83% during that session. The EAT stock price is -22.51% off its 52-week high price of $192.21 and 70.99% above the 52-week low of $45.52. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 1.59 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 1.56 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Brinker International, Inc (EAT) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.50. 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 7 out of 16 have rated it as a Hold, with 8 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 2.52.

Brinker International, Inc (NYSE:EAT) trade information

Sporting 4.83% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the EAT stock price touched $156.89 or saw a rise of 0.85%. Year-to-date, Brinker International, Inc shares have moved 18.60%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 6.27%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Brinker International, Inc (NYSE:EAT) have changed 8.34%. Short interest in the company has seen 4.82 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.52.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $112.5, which means that the shares’ value could drop -39.46% from current levels. The projected low price target is $95.0 while the price target rests at a high of $155.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is 1.2% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 39.45% from current levels.

Brinker International, Inc (EAT) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have gained 75.69% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 18.68%.

16 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.38B for the current quarter. 16 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.36B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.12B and 1.21B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 23.61% for the current quarter and 18.68% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -3.02% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 105.41% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 38.38%.

EAT Dividends

Brinker International, Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Jan-28 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

Brinker International, Inc (NYSE:EAT)’s Major holders

Insiders own 1.42% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 104.72% with a share float percentage of 106.23%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Brinker International, Inc having a total of 527.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 6.86 million shares worth more than $496.5 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 15.4475% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 5.3 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $383.4 million and represent 11.9286% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 6.18% shares in the company for having 2.75 shares of worth $430.83 million while later fund manager owns 1.32 shares of worth $207.56 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 2.98% of company’s outstanding stock.