Build-A-Bear Workshop (BBW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Build-A-Bear Workshop in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BBW shares.
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3 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Build-A-Bear Workshop's stock. Their BBW share price targets range from $36.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $39.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 42.6% from the stock's current price.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop's stock was trading at $22.99 at the start of the year. Since then, BBW shares have increased by 20.0% and is now trading at $27.58.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,770,000 shares, a decline of 11.1% from the March 15th total of 1,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 221,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 8.0 days. Approximately 13.5% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 23rd 2024.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE:BBW) released its earnings results on Thursday, March, 14th. The specialty retailer reported $1.34 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.32 by $0.02. The specialty retailer earned $149.28 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $150.02 million. Build-A-Bear Workshop had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 45.25% and a net margin of 10.86%.

Build-A-Bear Workshop declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 13th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 28th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Thursday, April 11th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.90%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 27th.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE:BBW) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.88%. The dividend payout ratio is 21.92%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BBW will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.80% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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225 employees have rated Build-A-Bear Workshop Chief Executive Officer Sharon John on Glassdoor.com. Sharon John has an approval rating of 62% among the company's employees. This puts Sharon John in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Build-A-Bear Workshop's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.51%). Insiders that own company stock include Cannell Capital Llc, Craig Leavitt, Derek J Maetzold, Eric R Fencl, George Carrara, J Christopher Hurt, Jennifer Kretchmar, Maxine Clark, Robert L Dixon Jr, Sharon Price John and Vojin Todorovic.
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