Ascena Retail Group Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:ASNA)

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

Ascena Retail Group Inc (NASDAQ:ASNA) released its earnings results on Monday, June, 10th. The specialty retailer reported ($0.26) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.37) by $0.11. The specialty retailer earned $1.27 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.43 billion. Ascena Retail Group had a negative net margin of 11.02% and a negative return on equity of 20.95%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.08) earnings per share. View Ascena Retail Group's Earnings History.

Ascena Retail Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, December 9th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Ascena Retail Group.

Ascena Retail Group issued an update on its first quarter 2020 earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 3rd. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.1-1.125 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.14 billion.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Ascena Retail Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $1.00 to $1.05. On average, they expect Ascena Retail Group's share price to reach $1.02 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 151.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ascena Retail Group.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ascena Retail Group in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ascena Retail Group.

Media headlines about ASNA stock have been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ascena Retail Group earned a news sentiment score of -3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Ascena Retail Group.

Ascena Retail Group saw a decline in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 40,910,000 shares, a decline of 13.9% from the August 30th total of 47,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,000,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 10.2 days. Currently, 23.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Ascena Retail Group's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Ascena Retail Group investors own include General Electric (GE), Rite Aid (RAD), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Under Armour (UAA), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX) and Bank of America (BAC).

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One share of ASNA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $0.40.

Ascena Retail Group has a market capitalization of $80.48 million and generates $5.49 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $-661,400,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.98) on an earnings per share basis. Ascena Retail Group employs 53,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Ascena Retail Group.

The official website for Ascena Retail Group is http://www.ascenaretail.com/.

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 or via email at [email protected]