Currently, there are 28.96M common shares owned by the public and among those 27.22M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 47 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 33 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 1,221,314 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 14 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 53,462 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 4.3000, down -27.99%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -28.78% and 2.66% over the past three months. BIG shares are trading -50.45% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -76.42% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $3.47 and touched a high of $17.44 over the same period. BIG has an average intraday trading volume of 7.15 shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -36.31%, -40.94%, and -42.50% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Big Lots Inc (NYSE: BIG) shares accounts for 75.11% of the company’s 28.96M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $112.79M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 2.38. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$15.93. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 9.78% over the week and 7.98% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Big Lots Inc (BIG) will achieve an EPS of -$0.16 for the current quarter, -$2.77 for the next quarter and -$7.89 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -$0.86 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.18. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -$0.28 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -91.57%, and 23.47% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the BIG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Loop Capital stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on Feb-13-24, with the firm’s price target at $6-$1.
