NASDAQ:BJRIBJ's Restaurants Stock Price, Forecast & News

BJ's Restaurants' stock was trading at $21.39 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BJRI stock has decreased by 8.6% and is now trading at $19.55. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

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

BJ's Restaurants is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 23rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for BJ's Restaurants.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) issued its earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The restaurant operator reported ($0.10) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.38) by $0.28. The restaurant operator earned $254.60 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $258.43 million. BJ's Restaurants had a return on equity of 8.96% and a net margin of 2.50%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 12.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.60 earnings per share. View BJ's Restaurants' earnings history.

BJ's Restaurants announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 20th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 10th will be given a dividend of $0.13 per share on Tuesday, March 24th. This represents a $0.52 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 9th. View BJ's Restaurants' dividend history.

17 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for BJ's Restaurants' shares. Their forecasts range from $12.00 to $52.00. On average, they expect BJ's Restaurants' stock price to reach $32.53 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 66.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for BJ's Restaurants.

Media stories about BJRI stock have been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BJ's Restaurants earned a daily sentiment score of 2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutBJ's Restaurants.

BJ's Restaurants saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,720,000 shares, an increase of 34.4% from the April 30th total of 1,280,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 950,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.8 days. Approximately 9.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View BJ's Restaurants' Current Options Chain.

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

BJ's Restaurants' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (16.24%), State Street Corp (3.59%), Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc. (2.57%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (2.57%), HighTower Advisors LLC (1.53%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (1.80%). Company insiders that own BJ's Restaurants stock include Alex Puchner, Brian S Krakower, Gerald W Deitchle, Greg Trojan, Gregory Levin, Gregory S Lynds, Jacob Guild, Kendra D Miller, Kevin E Mayer, Larry D Bouts, 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 Ranger Investment Management L.P., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., WINTON GROUP Ltd, Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc., Public Sector Pension Investment Board, and Invesco Ltd.. View insider buying and selling activity for BJ's Restaurants.

BJRI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., HighTower Advisors LLC, Matarin Capital Management LLC, THB Asset Management, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Russell Investments Group Ltd., and State Street Corp. Company insiders that have bought BJ's Restaurants stock in the last two years include Gerald W Deitchle, Greg Trojan, Gregory Levin, Gregory S Lynds, Jacob Guild, and Noah A Elbogen. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $19.55.

BJ's Restaurants has a market capitalization of $435.18 million and generates $1.16 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $45.24 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.08 on an earnings per share basis. BJ's Restaurants employs 22,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for BJ's Restaurants is 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]