Utz Brands Inc (NYSE: UTZ) on Monday, plunged -5.70% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $14.02. Within the past 52 weeks, UTZ’s price has moved between $12.70 and $19.99.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 8.37% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 10.00%. With a float of $70.72 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $83.54 million.
In an organization with 3200 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 40.89%, operating margin of 8.72%, and the pretax margin is 4.55%.
Utz Brands Inc (UTZ) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Packaged Foods industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Utz Brands Inc is 17.82%, while institutional ownership is 88.20%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 06 ’25, was worth 6,646,909. In this transaction of this company sold 496,038 shares at a rate of $13.40, taking the stock ownership to the 0 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 06 ’25, when Company’s Affiliate proposed sale 496,038 for $13.74, making the entire transaction worth $6,815,562.
Utz Brands Inc (UTZ) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.21 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.00% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.77% during the next five years compared to 5.56% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Utz Brands Inc (NYSE: UTZ) Trading Performance Indicators
Utz Brands Inc (UTZ) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.76 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 1.33. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 248.27.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.18, a number that is poised to hit 0.16 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.95 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Utz Brands Inc (UTZ)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.25 million. That was better than the volume of 1.18 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 41.34%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.45.
During the past 100 days, Utz Brands Inc’s (UTZ) raw stochastic average was set at 9.98%, which indicates a significant decrease from 15.76% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 31.76% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 30.79% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $13.69, while its 200-day Moving Average is $15.80. However, in the short run, Utz Brands Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $13.55. Second resistance stands at $13.88. The third major resistance level sits at $14.06. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $13.04, it is likely to go to the next support level at $12.86. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $12.53.
Utz Brands Inc (NYSE: UTZ) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 1.87 billion based on 141,410K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,409 M and income totals 15,970 K. The company made 341,050 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 2,310 K in sales during its previous quarter.
