Sovos Brands Inc (SOVO) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $22.37, with 6.58 million shares of worth about $147.29 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.80% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 0.81%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 100.97M shares, out of which, 49.70M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 55 times over the past 12 months. They bought 56,970 shares in 6 of the transactions. In 49 selling transactions, insiders dumped 47,444,021 shares.
Stock saw a price change of 0.40% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.31%. Year-to-date (YTD), SOVO shares are showing a performance of 1.54% which increased to 64.24% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $12.74 but also hit the highest price of $22.73 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Sovos Brands Inc shares is 995.99K. The stock is currently trading 1.03% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 1.34% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.94% higher than SMA200.
Sovos Brands Inc (NASDAQ: SOVO) currently have 100.97M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 66.20% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $2.27B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.00. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.14 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 2.39 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.98. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for SOVO, volatility over the week remained 0.36% while standing at 0.41% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Sovos Brands Inc (SOVO) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.19 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.2 and it is $0.86 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.17 which is $0.22 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 $0.19 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 25.10% while it is estimated to increase by 13.43% in next year.
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 Stephens on June 23, 2023 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $23 to it.
