Green Plains Inc (GPRE) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $22.63, with 3.78 million shares of worth about $85.56 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -32.27% during that period and on Wednesday February 7 the price saw a gain of about 13.04%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 64.21M shares, out of which, 61.91M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 50 times over the past 12 months. They bought 284,998 shares in 21 of the transactions. In 29 selling transactions, insiders dumped 300,118 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 25.24, or with a gain of 13.04%. Stock saw a price change of 9.17% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -6.06%. Year-to-date (YTD), GPRE shares are showing a performance of -10.27% which decreased to -33.83% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $19.44 but also hit the highest price of $37.49 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Green Plains Inc shares is 1.24 million. The stock is currently trading 7.21% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.31% for SMA50 and it goes to -22.24% lower than SMA200.
Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ: GPRE) currently have 64.21M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 101.14% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.45B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.61. It has posted earnings per share of -$1.62 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.34 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GPRE, volatility over the week remained 5.61% while standing at 4.37% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Green Plains Inc (GPRE) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.15 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.01 and it is $1.29 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.09 which is $0.65 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 -$0.66 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 182.25% while it is estimated to increase by 146.58% in next year.
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 BofA Securities on May 12, 2023 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $39 to it.
