Millennium Management LLC recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Altice USA Inc (NYSE:ATUS). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Communication Services company by 51.61% to 7.76 million shares with purchase of 2.64 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 1.71% valued currently at $25.21 million.
Currently, there are 639.09M common shares owned by the public and among those 389.13M shares have been available to trade.
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Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 14 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 12 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 2,068,013 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 2 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 1,575,153 shares.
The top 3 mutual fund holders in Altice USA Inc are Clarkston Partners Fund, Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, and Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund. Clarkston Partners Fund owns 9.5 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $30.88 million. The company bought an additional 0.5 million shares recently to bring their total holdings to about 2.09% of the shares outstanding. Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund sold 37642.0 shares to bring its total holdings to over 5.54 million shares at a value of $18.0 million. Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund now owns shares totaling to 1.22% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 2.6500, up 5.69%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 4.42% and -11.86% over the past three months. ATUS shares are trading -20.00% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -45.83% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $1.75 and touched a high of $5.57 over the same period. ATUS has an average intraday trading volume of 5.07 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 -5.98%, 5.61%, and -9.66% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Altice USA Inc (NYSE: ATUS) shares accounts for 36.48% of the company’s 639.09M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 34.40%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 45.09% and 16.97% respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $1.66B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.33. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.05. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 8.31% over the week and 10.16% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Altice USA Inc (ATUS) will achieve an EPS of $Altice USA, Inc. for the current quarter, $2.60 for the next quarter and $Stocks for Type. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $Astria Therapeutics, Inc.. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $Addus HomeCare Corporation a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 12.92%, and -25.61% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 6.40% over the next five years, compared to -27.52% over the past 5-year period.
