BlackRock Fund Advisors recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Sunpower Corp (NASDAQ:SPWR). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Technology company by 3.07% to 16.33 million shares with purchase of 0.49 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 9.32% valued currently at $67.75 million. In addition, The Vanguard Group, Inc. raised its holdings by 0.14 million to 9.19 million shares. And Schroder Investment Management Lt has lifted its position by 10.69% or 0.72 million shares – to 7.5 million shares.
With over 6.7 million Sunpower Corp (SPWR) shares trading Monday and a closing price of $3.88 on the day, the dollar volume was approximately $25.99 million. The shares have shown a negative half year performance of -58.50% and its price on 01/08/24 lost nearly -2.14%. Currently, there are 174.27M common shares owned by the public and among those 86.36M shares have been available to trade.
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The analysts have set the share’s price value over the next 12 months at a high of $17.80 and a low of $2.50. The average price target is 23.77% above its recent price level and a downside to the estimated low will see the stock lose -55.2% over that period. But an upside of 78.2% will see the stock hit the forecast high price target while median target price for the stock is $4.13.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 49 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 36 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 357,765 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 13 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 121,419 shares.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in Sunpower Corp are iShares Core S&P Small Cap ETF, Schroder ISF – Global Energy Tran, and Invesco Solar ETF. iShares Core S&P Small Cap ETF owns 5.77 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $23.95 million. The company bought an additional 3204.0 shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 3.29% of the shares outstanding. Invesco Solar ETF bought 7155.0 shares to bring its total holdings to over 2.75 million shares at a value of $11.43 million. Invesco Solar ETF now owns shares totaling to 1.57% of the shares outstanding.
Shares of Sunpower Corp (NASDAQ: SPWR) opened at $3.92, down -$0.04 from a prior closing price of $3.96. However, the script later moved the day high at 4.0090, down -2.14%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -19.67% and -28.94% over the past three months. SPWR shares are trading -19.67% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -76.82% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $3.62 and touched a high of $19.32 over the same period. SPWR has an average intraday trading volume of 7.15 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -18.79%, -13.65%, and -53.35% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Sunpower Corp (NASDAQ: SPWR) shares accounts for 50.97% of the company’s 174.27M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 20.82%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 30.32% and 101.81% respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $680.40M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.84. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.74. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 9.45% over the week and 11.38% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Sunpower Corp (SPWR) will achieve an EPS of -$0.24 for the current quarter, -$0.13 for the next quarter and -$0.27 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -$0.35 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -$0.03. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.15 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -290.21%, and 50.04% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the SPWR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wells Fargo stated their Underweight rating for the stock in a research note on Jan-09-24, with the firm’s price target at $6-$4.
