Can US Foods Holding Corp’s (USFD) drop of -3.58% in a week be considered a lucky break?

US Foods Holding Corp (NYSE: USFD) on Monday, plunged -0.04% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $57.11. Within the past 52 weeks, USFD’s price has moved between $35.66 and $59.79.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Defensive sector saw sales topped by 8.88%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 17.32%. With a float of $242.93 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $245.20 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 30000 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 17.26%, operating margin of 2.91%, and the pretax margin is 1.87%.

US Foods Holding Corp (USFD) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Observing investor behavior towards Food Distribution industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of US Foods Holding Corp is 0.67%, while institutional ownership is 100.28%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 07 ’24, was worth 451,626. In this transaction EVP Strategy Revenue Mgmt of this company sold 8,365 shares at a rate of $53.99, taking the stock ownership to the 160,196 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 06 ’24, when Company’s EVP Strategy Revenue Mgmt sold 50,000 for $52.52, making the entire transaction worth $2,626,000. This insider now owns 148,561 shares in total.

US Foods Holding Corp (USFD) Latest Financial update

As on 6/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.7 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.69) by 0.01. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.78 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 17.32% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 20.48% during the next five years compared to 1.33% growth over the previous five years of trading.

US Foods Holding Corp (NYSE: USFD) Trading Performance Indicators

US Foods Holding Corp (USFD) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.81 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.38. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 18.59.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.10, a number that is poised to hit 0.83 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.70 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of US Foods Holding Corp (USFD)

The latest stats from [US Foods Holding Corp, USFD] show that its last 5-days average volume of 2.11 million was superior to 1.8 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.12%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.10.

During the past 100 days, US Foods Holding Corp’s (USFD) raw stochastic average was set at 73.37%, which indicates a significant increase from 3.23% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.62% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 24.37% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $54.46, while its 200-day Moving Average is $50.93. Now, the first resistance to watch is $57.59. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $58.10. The third major resistance level sits at $58.39. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $56.79, it is likely to go to the next support level at $56.50. The third support level lies at $55.99 if the price breaches the second support level.

US Foods Holding Corp (NYSE: USFD) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 13.96 billion based on 245,867K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 35,597 M and income totals 506,000 K. The company made 9,709 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 198,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.