NASDAQ:ASNA - Ascena Retail Group Stock Price, Price Target & More

Ascena Retail Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ASNA."

Ascena Retail Group Inc (NASDAQ:ASNA) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, June, 6th. The specialty retailer reported ($0.08) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.09) by $0.01. The specialty retailer had revenue of $1.50 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.47 billion. Ascena Retail Group had a negative return on equity of 1.08% and a negative net margin of 1.37%. The business's revenue was down 3.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.05 earnings per share. View Ascena Retail Group's Earnings History.

Ascena Retail Group updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Monday, June, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of ($0.05) to $0.05 for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.62-1.66 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.58 billion.

5 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Ascena Retail Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $3.00 to $3.50. On average, they expect Ascena Retail Group's stock price to reach $3.1667 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Ascena Retail Group.

Ascena Retail Group saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 34,848,635 shares, a drop of 4.4% from the May 15th total of 36,464,467 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,143,631 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 11.1 days. Approximately 22.6% of the shares of the company are sold short.

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News stories about ASNA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Ascena Retail Group earned a media sentiment score of 0.16 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the specialty retailer an impact score of 46.66 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

Ascena Retail Group's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (11.37%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (7.71%), Towle & Co. (4.10%), Think Investments LP (1.21%), Northern Trust Corp (1.08%) and OppenheimerFunds Inc. (0.98%). Company insiders that own Ascena Retail Group stock include Elliot S Jaffe, John E Pershing and Krill Katherine Lawther. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ascena Retail Group.

ASNA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, Towle & Co., OppenheimerFunds Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Guggenheim Capital LLC, Northern Trust Corp and UBS Group AG. Company insiders that have sold Ascena Retail Group company stock in the last year include John E Pershing and Krill Katherine Lawther. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ascena Retail Group.

ASNA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Think Investments LP, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Mackay Shields LLC, Alambic Investment Management L.P., Mutual Advisors LLC, ICM Asset Management Inc. WA, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. and BlackRock Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ascena Retail Group.

Shares of ASNA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ASNA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $3.97.

Ascena Retail Group has a market capitalization of $782.90 million and generates $6.65 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $-1,067,300,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.22 on an earnings per share basis. Ascena Retail Group employs 64,000 workers across the globe.

Ascena Retail Group's mailing address is 933 MacArthur Boulevard, Mahwah NJ, 07430. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 551-777-6700.