In the last trading session, 1.13 million shares of the Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) were traded, and its beta was 1.11. Most recently the company’s share price was $4.37, and it changed around $0.16 or 3.80% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $285.79M. GPRE currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $18.68, offering almost -327.46% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $3.14, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 28.15% since then. We note from Green Plains Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.82 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.05 million.
Green Plains Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.33. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 7 recommended GPRE as a Hold, whereas 2 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) trade information
Instantly GPRE has showed a green trend with a performance of 3.80% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 4.81 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 9.15%. The company’s shares are currently down -53.90% year-to-date, but still down -8.77% over the last five days. On the other hand, Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE) is 22.07% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 8.29 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.48 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $7, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 37.57% from its current value. Analyst projections state that GPRE is forecast to be at a low of $6 and a high of $12.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 21.65%.
GPRE Dividends
Green Plains Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-07. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.59 per year.
Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ:GPRE)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 2.88% of Green Plains Inc shares, and 92.93% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 95.68%. Green Plains Inc stock is held by 289.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 15.7471% of the shares, which is about 10.07 million shares worth $159.67 million.
GRANTHAM, MAYO, VAN OTTERLOO & CO. LLC, with 9.4913% or 6.07 million shares worth $96.24 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
GMO TRUST-GMO Resources Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Feb 28, 2025 . The former held 1.99 shares worth $8.68 million, making up 3.04% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 1.93 shares worth around $8.45 million, which represents about 2.96% of the total shares outstanding.
