NASDAQ:BJRI - BJ's Restaurants Stock Price, Forecast & News

BJ's Restaurants trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BJRI."

BJ's Restaurants declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 24th. Investors of record on Monday, November 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.13 per share on Monday, November 25th. This represents a $0.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 7th. This is an increase from BJ's Restaurants's previous quarterly dividend of $0.12. View BJ's Restaurants' Dividend History.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The restaurant operator reported $0.18 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.08. The restaurant operator earned $278.74 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $278.49 million. BJ's Restaurants had a net margin of 3.60% and a return on equity of 13.38%. BJ's Restaurants's revenue for the quarter was up 3.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.39 EPS. View BJ's Restaurants' Earnings History.

BJ's Restaurants is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 20th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for BJ's Restaurants.

14 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for BJ's Restaurants' shares. Their forecasts range from $29.00 to $55.00. On average, they expect BJ's Restaurants' share price to reach $46.36 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 25.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for BJ's Restaurants.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BJ's Restaurants in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for BJ's Restaurants.

Media coverage about BJRI stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BJ's Restaurants earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for BJ's Restaurants.

BJ's Restaurants saw a decline in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,510,000 shares, a decline of 24.9% from the October 31st total of 2,010,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 425,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.6 days. Approximately 8.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. View BJ's Restaurants' Current Options Chain.

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BJ's Restaurants' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include GW&K Investment Management LLC (2.87%), State Street Corp (3.01%), Man Group plc (1.47%), Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS (1.02%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.91%) and Rice Hall James & Associates LLC (0.63%). Company insiders that own BJ's Restaurants stock include Alex Puchner, Brian S Krakower, Gerald W Deitchle, Greg Trojan, Gregory Levin, Kendra D Miller, Kevin E Mayer, Larry D Bouts, Lea Anne Ottinger, Lon Ledwith, Noah A Elbogen and Patrick Walsh. View Institutional Ownership Trends for BJ's Restaurants.

BJRI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Voya Investment Management LLC, Man Group plc, State Street Corp, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Hennessy Advisors Inc., Barclays PLC, Rice Hall James & Associates LLC and Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJ's Restaurants.

BJRI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including GW&K Investment Management LLC, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Bridge City Capital LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and SG Americas Securities LLC. Company insiders that have bought BJ's Restaurants stock in the last two years include Gerald W Deitchle and Greg Trojan. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJ's Restaurants.

Shares of BJRI 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BJRI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.86.

BJ's Restaurants has a market capitalization of $706.35 million and generates $1.12 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $50.81 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.35 on an earnings per share basis. BJ's Restaurants employs 22,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About BJ's Restaurants.

The official website for BJ's Restaurants is http://www.bjsrestaurants.com/.

BJ's Restaurants' mailing address is 7755 Center Avenue Suite 300, Huntington Beach CA, 92647. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 714-500-2400 or via email at [email protected]