Calavo Growers (CVGW) Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Calavo Growers in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CVGW shares.
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2 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Calavo Growers' shares. Their CVGW share price forecasts range from $35.00 to $45.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $40.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 51.0% from the stock's current price.
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Calavo Growers' stock was trading at $29.40 at the start of the year. Since then, CVGW shares have decreased by 9.9% and is now trading at $26.49.
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Calavo Growers saw a decrease in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 679,900 shares, a decrease of 6.1% from the August 15th total of 723,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 158,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.3 days. Approximately 4.1% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, December 19th 2023.
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Calavo Growers, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVGW) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, September, 6th. The company reported $0.41 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.10. The business earned $259.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $280.77 million. Calavo Growers had a negative net margin of 0.39% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 2.85%. Calavo Growers's revenue was down 24.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.16 EPS.

Calavo Growers declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, September 1st. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 27th will be given a dividend of $0.10 per share on Wednesday, October 11th. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 26th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) stock in their portfolio include ETC 6 Meridian Small Cap Equity ETF (SIXS), Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF (PSCC) and ETC 6 Meridian Low Beta Equity Strategy ETF (SIXL).IQ Chaikin U.S. Small Cap ETF (CSML).

Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.45%.
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7 employees have rated Calavo Growers Chief Executive Officer Lee Cole on Glassdoor.com. Lee Cole has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Lee Cole in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Calavo Growers trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CVGW."

Calavo Growers' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (15.72%), State Street Corp (3.62%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (3.60%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.23%), Kennedy Capital Management LLC (2.65%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.97%). Insiders that own company stock include Donald M Sanders, James D Helin, Lecil E Cole, Michael A Browne, Michael Anthony Digregorio, Robert J Wedin and Steve Hollister.
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Shares of CVGW stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of CVGW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $26.49.

Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) has a market capitalization of $470.49 million and generates $974.34 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-6,250,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.22) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,266 workers across the globe.

Calavo Growers' mailing address is 1141-A Cummings Road, SANTA PAULA CA, 93060. The official website for the company is www.calavo.com. The company can be reached via phone at (805) 525-1245, via email at calavo@finprofiles.com, or via fax at 805-921-3219.