Currently, there are 50.77M common shares owned by the public and among those 30.65M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -1.61% and -4.47% over the past three months. BKE shares are trading -10.49% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 19.22% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $33.18 and touched a high of $51.62 over the same period. BKE has an average intraday trading volume of 485.73K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -6.34%, -9.66%, and 4.56% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Buckle, Inc (NYSE: BKE) shares accounts for 61.59% of the company’s 50.77M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.20B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.14. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 10.98, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.94. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.96% over the week and 2.25% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -14.94%, and 1.85% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of -1.13% over the next five years, compared to 17.49% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the BKE, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. UBS stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on November 12, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $31-$46. UBS coverage for the Buckle, Inc (BKE) stock in a research note released on January 05, 2024 offered a Sell rating with a price target of $34. UBS was of a view on April 10, 2023 that the stock is Neutral, while Sidoti gave the stock Buy rating on December 14, 2021, issuing a price target of $60. Deutsche Bank on their part issued Sell rating on March 08, 2019.
