Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE: BNED) on Friday, soared 4.34% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $9.91. Within the past 52 weeks, BNED’s price has moved between $6.05 and $226.00.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company slipped by -4.50% over the past five years. With a float of $11.03 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $27.29 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 3750 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 21.27%, operating margin of -3.96%, and the pretax margin is -7.13%.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Specialty Retail industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Barnes & Noble Education Inc is 59.57%, while institutional ownership is 14.31%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 16 ’24, was worth 146,630. In this transaction Director of this company bought 18,000 shares at a rate of $8.15, taking the stock ownership to the 112,441 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 08 ’24, when Company’s Director bought 60,000 for $6.98, making the entire transaction worth $418,752. This insider now owns 67,441 shares in total.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) Performance Highlights and Predictions
As on 7/31/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 46 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 43.5) by 2.5. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0 per share during the current fiscal year.
For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 20.00% during the next five years compared to -19.60% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE: BNED) Trading Performance Indicators
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.40 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 0.19.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -31.20
Technical Analysis of Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED)
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE: BNED) saw its 5-day average volume 0.49 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.26 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 21.54%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.79.
During the past 100 days, Barnes & Noble Education Inc’s (BNED) raw stochastic average was set at 49.69%, which indicates a significant increase from 27.43% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 133.12% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 86.35% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $9.82, while its 200-day Moving Average is $29.20. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $10.66 in the near term. At $10.98, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $11.31. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $10.01, it is likely to go to the next support level at $9.68. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $9.36.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE: BNED) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 294.37 million based on 27,286K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,567 M and income totals -63,210 K. The company made 263,430 K in profit during its latest quarter, and -99,480 K in sales during its previous quarter.
