Teachers Advisors LLC has recently announced that it has increased stake in Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (NYSE:ARCO) by 1.68%. After grabbing 7.01 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 0.12 million shares of the Consumer Cyclical Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 5.37% having worth around $66.3 million. Moreover, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC increased its share by 0.5 million to have a control over 2.15 million shares. And Marshall Wace LLP raised its holdings to 0.42 million shares by acquiring 1.87 million shares or 1.43% of the stake.
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (ARCO) concluded trading on 11/16/23 at a closing price of $11.44, with 2.95 million shares of worth about $33.78 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 25.30% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 8.54%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 130.59M shares, out of which, 123.78M shares are available for trading.
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A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 5 analysts are covering the ARCO stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $12.54. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $13.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $12.00. The stock’s current price level is 8.77% above of average price target set by the analysts, while a rise to estimated low would result in gain of 4.67% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $13.00 would mean a gain of 12.0% for the stock.
CREF Stock Account, TIAA-CREF Emerging Markets Equity, and Invesco Emerging Markets All Cap are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc CREF Stock Account is currently holding 8.81 million shares of worth totaling $83.37 million. The company recently came buying 0.0 shares which brought its stake up to 6.75% of the company’s outstanding shares. Invesco Emerging Markets All Cap, after buying 6.25 million shares, have now control over 4.79% of the stake in the company. It holds 0.0 shares of worth $59.13 million.
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (NYSE: ARCO) started trading at $11.04, above $0.5 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 11.60, or with a gain of 8.54%. Stock saw a price change of 18.92% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 18.30%. Year-to-date (YTD), ARCO shares are showing a performance of 36.84% which increased to 56.71% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $7.01 but also hit the highest price of $11.47 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc shares is 882.38K. The stock is currently trading 19.27% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 19.33% for SMA50 and it goes to 24.81% higher than SMA200.
Teachers Advisors LLC acquired 7.01 million shares of Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc having value of about $66.3 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by Teachers Advisors LLC revealed that the firm now holds 0.12 million shares in the company valued at close to $1327428.96, or have control over 1.68% stake in the company. Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (NYSE: ARCO) currently have 130.59M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 39.30% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 24.92% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 34.85% and — of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $2.41B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.19. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.42, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.79 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.34 and has Quick Ratio of 0.73 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.72. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ARCO, volatility over the week remained 3.75% while standing at 3.29% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (ARCO) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.22 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.25 and it is $0.84 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.2 which is $0.23 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.23 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 16.75% while it is estimated to increase by 12.86% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 42.56% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.06% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Analysts at 5 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc (ARCO)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Strong Buy” and assign it a score of 1.00. Out of those 5 Wall Street analysts, 5 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 0 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Barclays on September 27, 2022 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $9 to it.
