In the last trading session, 1.16 million Jack In The Box, Inc (NASDAQ:JACK) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.18. With the company’s per share price at $19.09 changed hands at $1.63 or 9.34% during last session, the market valuation stood at $360.41M. JACK’s last price was a discount, traded about -218.12% off its 52-week high of $60.73. The share price had its 52-week low at $16.63, which suggests the last value was 12.89% up since then. When we look at Jack In The Box, Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.95 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.00 million.
Analysts gave the Jack In The Box, Inc (JACK) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.89. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 22 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 8 recommended JACK as a Hold, 13 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Jack In The Box, Inc (NASDAQ:JACK) trade information
Instantly JACK was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 7.07%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -62.90%, with the 5-day performance at 7.07% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Jack In The Box, Inc (NASDAQ:JACK) is 0.66% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 4.64 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.52 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 29.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 35.29% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, JACK’s forecast low is 24 with 61 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -219.54% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -25.72% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Jack In The Box, Inc earnings to decrease by -16.79%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -3.00% per year.
JACK Dividends
Jack In The Box, Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-14. The 6.91% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.32. It is important to note, however, that the 6.91% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.7 per year.
Jack In The Box, Inc (NASDAQ:JACK)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.79% of Jack In The Box, Inc shares while 116.32% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 118.44%. There are 116.32% institutions holding the Jack In The Box, Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 15.3983% of the shares, roughly 3.0 million JACK shares worth $152.6 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 13.1925% or 2.57 million shares worth $130.74 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC and iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF . With 1.61 shares estimated at $30.67 million under it, the former controlled 8.51% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF held about 6.04% of the shares, roughly 1.14 shares worth around $21.77 million.
