Post Holdings Inc (POST) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $115.05, with 0.48 million shares of worth about $54.91 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.54% during that period and on April 17, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.20%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 56.48M shares, out of which, 49.92M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.46% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 2.31%. Year-to-date (YTD), POST shares are showing a performance of 0.52% which increased to 12.67% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $99.70 but also hit the highest price of $125.84 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Post Holdings Inc shares is 647.69K. The stock is currently trading -0.11% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 1.07% for SMA50 and it goes to 2.13% higher than SMA200.
Post Holdings Inc (NYSE: POST) currently have 56.48M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.49% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $6.50B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.49. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.35, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.95 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.57 and has Quick Ratio of 1.64 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.79. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for POST, volatility over the week remained 2.31% while standing at 2.58% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.50% while it is estimated to increase by 14.74% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 7.54% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 27.73% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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 Mizuho on January 09, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $110 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Post Holdings Inc (POST) stock as an Equal weight in their note to investors on December 12, 2023, suggesting a price target of $92 for the stock. On October 13, 2023, JP Morgan Initiated their recommendations, while on May 08, 2023, Evercore ISI Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $105. Stock get an Overweight rating from Barclays on May 02, 2023.
