Frontline Plc (NYSE: FRO) Not A Good Play Anymore?

Frontline Plc (FRO) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $18.37, with 3.3 million shares of worth about $60.54 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 20.70% during that period and on June 12, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.28%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 222.62M shares, out of which, 143.15M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 1.32% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 2.97%. Year-to-date (YTD), FRO shares are showing a performance of 29.46% which decreased to -31.30% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $12.40 but also hit the highest price of $26.53 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Frontline Plc shares is 2.86 million. The stock is currently trading 2.24% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 9.97% for SMA50 and it goes to 1.72% higher than SMA200.

Frontline Plc (NYSE: FRO) currently have 222.62M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 25.49% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $4.09B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.31. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 11.75, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.56 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.65 and has Quick Ratio of 1.82 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.58. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for FRO, volatility over the week remained 1.54% while standing at 2.84% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Frontline Plc (FRO) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.53 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.43 and it is 2.4 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.39 which is 0.83 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 0.62 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -6.41% while it is estimated to increase by 46.03% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 18.07% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 22.52% 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 Kepler on December 12, 2024 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $15.83 to it. Coverage by BTIG Research stated Frontline Plc (FRO) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on October 07, 2024, suggesting a price target of $30 for the stock. On March 21, 2024, Jefferies Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 09, 2024, Deutsche Bank Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $26. Stock get a Hold rating from Deutsche Bank on August 25, 2023.

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