Buy, Sell Or Hold Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) At $3.58?

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In last trading session, Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) saw 2.65 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.25. Company’s recent per share price level of $3.58 trading at $0.17 or 4.99% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $231.73M. That closing price of GPRE’s stock is at a discount of -525.42% from its 52-week high price of $22.39 and is indicating a premium of 12.29% from its 52-week low price of $3.14. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.98 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 2.20 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Green Plains Inc (GPRE), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.20. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.65 in the current quarter.

Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 4.99%, in the last five days GPRE remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $3.58 price level, adding 2.45% to its value on the day. Green Plains Inc’s shares saw a change of -62.24% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.87% in past 5-day. Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) showed a performance of -29.11% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 7.64 million shares which calculate 3.02 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 7 to the stock, which implies a rise of 48.86% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 6 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 12. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -67.6% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -67.6% for stock’s current value.

Green Plains Inc (GPRE) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 2.17% from the last financial year’s standing.

8 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 604.36M for the same. And 8 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 625.26M in the next quarter. Company posted 597.21M and 618.83M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 21.65% during past 5 years.

Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 2.97% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 99.10 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 102.13%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 99.10% institutions for Green Plains Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at GPRE for having 10.07 million shares of worth $159.67 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.7471 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is GRANTHAM, MAYO, VAN OTTERLOO & CO. LLC, which was holding about 6.07 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.4913 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $96.24 million.

On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and GMO TRUST-GMO Resources Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 1.93 shares of worth $6.92 million or 2.99% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.82 shares on Nov 30, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $6.5 million in the company or a holder of 2.81% of company’s stock.