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. Investors of record on Monday, August 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share on Monday, August 26th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.30%. 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 quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 25th. The restaurant operator reported $0.68 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.06. The restaurant operator had revenue of $301.09 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $300.35 million. BJ's Restaurants had a net margin of 4.05% and a return on equity of 14.63%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 4.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.79 earnings per share. 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 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for BJ's Restaurants' shares. Their forecasts range from $32.00 to $61.00. On average, they anticipate BJ's Restaurants' stock price to reach $49.8571 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.3% 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 coverage about BJRI stock has been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BJ's Restaurants earned a daily sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for BJ's Restaurants.

BJ's Restaurants saw a drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,024,000 shares, a drop of 5.9% from the June 30th total of 2,151,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 538,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.8 days. Approximately 9.8% of the company's shares are short sold. View BJ's Restaurants' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BJ's Restaurants investors own include CA (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Hawkins (HWKN), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (OZM), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) and Precision Drilling (PD).

BJ's Restaurants' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail 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.. Company insiders that have sold BJ's Restaurants company stock in the last year include Brian S Krakower, Gerald W Deitchle, Greg Trojan, Gregory Levin, Kendra D Miller, Kevin E Mayer, Larry D Bouts, Lon Ledwith, Noah A Elbogen and Patrick Walsh. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJ's Restaurants.

BJRI stock was purchased 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, Scottrade, 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 $754.16 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]