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

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

BJ's Restaurants announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 12th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Monday, August 26th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.29%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 9th. View BJ's Restaurants' Dividend History.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) announced its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The restaurant operator reported $0.68 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.06. The restaurant operator had revenue of $301.09 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $300.35 million. BJ's Restaurants had a return on equity of 14.63% and a net margin of 4.05%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 4.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.79 EPS. View BJ's Restaurants' Earnings History.

BJ's Restaurants is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for BJ's Restaurants.

15 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for BJ's Restaurants' shares. Their forecasts range from $32.00 to $61.00. On average, they expect BJ's Restaurants' stock price to reach $49.8571 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 34.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for BJ's Restaurants.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BJ's Restaurants in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for BJ's Restaurants.

News headlines about BJRI stock have trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BJ's Restaurants earned a news impact score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for BJ's Restaurants.

BJ's Restaurants saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,150,400 shares, an increase of 6.2% from the July 31st total of 2,024,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 561,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days. Approximately 10.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View BJ's Restaurants' Current Options Chain.

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BJ's Restaurants' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (14.89%), Vanguard Group Inc. (10.69%), Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc. (3.28%), Bamco Inc. NY (2.93%), Marshall Wace LLP (2.57%) and Marshall Wace North America L.P. (2.32%). Company insiders that own BJ's Restaurants stock include Alex Puchner, Brian S Krakower, Gerald W Deitchle, Greg Trojan, Gregory Levin, Gregory S Lynds, 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 Vanguard Group Inc., Acadian Asset Management LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, RE Advisers Corp, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Hennessy Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJ's Restaurants.

BJRI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Marshall Wace North America L.P., Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH, Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., GW&K Investment Management LLC and Invesco Ltd.. 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 $37.09.

BJ's Restaurants has a market capitalization of $758.86 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]