A new trading day began on Friday, with Post Holdings Inc (NYSE: POST) stock price up 4.92% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $102.9. POST’s price has ranged from $101.05 to $125.84 over the past 52 weeks.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 27.73% annually for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 8.84%. With a float of $49.06 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $54.32 million.
In an organization with 11480 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 29.09%, operating margin of 10.02%, and the pretax margin is 5.8%.
Post Holdings Inc (POST) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Packaged Foods Industry. The insider ownership of Post Holdings Inc is 11.95%, while institutional ownership is 95.66%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 05 ’25, was worth 20,376,135. In this transaction Director of this company bought 186,740 shares at a rate of $109.11, taking the stock ownership to the 4,298,667 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jun 05 ’25, when Company’s PRES & CEO, PCB sold 1,750 for $108.97, making the entire transaction worth $190,702. This insider now owns 43,751 shares in total.
Post Holdings Inc (POST) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In its latest quarterly report, released on 9/30/2024, the company reported earnings of 1.53 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.04 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 8.84% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.02% during the next five years compared to 27.73% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Post Holdings Inc (NYSE: POST) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Post Holdings Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.84. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.76. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.90.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.84, a number that is poised to hit 1.87 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.01 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Post Holdings Inc (POST)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 0.89 million. That was better than the volume of 0.63 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 38.35%.
During the past 100 days, Post Holdings Inc’s (POST) raw stochastic average was set at 36.76%, which indicates a significant decrease from 78.52% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 2.25 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 2.27 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $108.48, while its 200-day Moving Average is $111.41.
