Pilgrim’s Pride Corp (NASDAQ: PPC) kicked off on Monday, down -5.40% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $40.72. Over the past 52 weeks, PPC has traded in a range of $36.77-$52.75.
It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Defensive sector saw sales topped by 20.13%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 0.07%. With a float of $41.33 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $237.38 million.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp (PPC) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Packaged Foods Industry. The insider ownership of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp is 82.60%, while institutional ownership is 21.14%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 09 ’25, was worth 3,208,121. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 70,000 shares at a rate of $45.83, taking the stock ownership to the 290,930 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jun 06 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 70,000 for $47.48, making the entire transaction worth $3,323,950.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp (PPC) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 1.63 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 1.38) by 0.25. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.0 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 0.07% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -4.40% during the next five years compared to 20.13% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp (NASDAQ: PPC) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Pilgrim’s Pride Corp’s (PPC) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.88. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.50. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.32.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.19, a number that is poised to hit 1.48 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.49 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp (PPC)
The latest stats from [Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, PPC] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.42 million was superior to 1.36 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 36.85%.
During the past 100 days, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp’s (PPC) raw stochastic average was set at 1.30%, which indicates a significant decrease from 3.49% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.06 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 1.16 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $44.84, while its 200-day Moving Average is $47.87. Now, the first resistance to watch is $40.07. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $41.61. The third major resistance level sits at $42.47. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $37.66, it is likely to go to the next support level at $36.80. The third support level lies at $35.26 if the price breaches the second support level.
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp (NASDAQ: PPC) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 9.15 billion has total of 237,547K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 17,878 M in contrast with the sum of 1,086 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 4,757 M and last quarter income was 355,520 K.
