Currently, there are 239.07M common shares owned by the public and among those 133.38M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 20.25% and 24.52% over the past three months. WOOF shares are trading 1.31% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 56.91% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $2.23 and touched a high of $6.29 over the same period. WOOF has an average intraday trading volume of 4.27 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 21.06%, 29.57%, and 6.22% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (NASDAQ: WOOF) shares accounts for 58.44% of the company’s 239.07M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $1.07B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.81. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.37. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 6.62% over the week and 5.79% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) will achieve an EPS of -0.01 for the current quarter, 0.02 for the next quarter and 0.2 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -0.04 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -0.04. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -0.04 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 193.87%, and 137.85% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the WOOF, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Citigroup stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on July 19, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $3-$4. BofA Securities coverage for the Petco Health and Wellness Co Inc (WOOF) stock in a research note released on April 02, 2024 offered a Underperform rating with a price target of $1.50. Jefferies was of a view on December 19, 2023 that the stock is Hold, while Robert W. Baird gave the stock Neutral rating on November 30, 2023, issuing a price target of $8- $3. Wells Fargo on their part issued Equal Weight rating on November 29, 2023.
