National Vision - EYE Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for National Vision in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" EYE shares.
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6 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for National Vision's stock. Their EYE share price forecasts range from $24.00 to $45.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $32.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 82.1% from the stock's current price.
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National Vision's stock was trading at $38.76 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EYE shares have decreased by 54.7% and is now trading at $17.57.
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National Vision saw a drop in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 7,100,000 shares, a drop of 15.3% from the February 13th total of 8,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 943,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 7.5 days. Approximately 9.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 9th 2023.
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National Vision Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:EYE) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March, 1st. The company reported ($0.11) EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of ($0.11). The company earned $468.93 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $471.61 million. National Vision had a net margin of 2.10% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.16%.

ETFs with the largest weight of National Vision (NASDAQ:EYE) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares (RETL), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF (VIOG), iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 ETF (VIOO), iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (IJS) and Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (VIOV).

National Vision declared that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Monday, November 29th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $100,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 2.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

National Vision updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 1st. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.42-$0.60 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.98. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.08 billion-$2.13 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.14 billion.

243 employees have rated National Vision Chief Executive Officer L. Reade Fahs on Glassdoor.com. L. Reade Fahs has an approval rating of 97% among the company's employees. This puts L. Reade Fahs in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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(EYE) raised $300 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, October 26th 2017. The company issued 15,800,000 shares at a price of $18.00-$20.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, KKR, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Guggenheim Securities, Mizuho Securities and Macquarie Capital were co-managers.

National Vision trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EYE."

National Vision's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (9.72%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (8.75%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (5.93%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (5.37%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (3.59%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Jared Brandman, L Reade Fahs, Melissa Rasmussen, Mfn Partners, Lp, Ravi Acharya and Virginia A Hepner.
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Shares of EYE 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 EYE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.57.

National Vision (NASDAQ:EYE) has a market capitalization of $1.39 billion and generates $2.01 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $42.12 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.49 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 13,975 workers across the globe.

National Vision's mailing address is 2435 COMMERCE AVENUE BLDG. 2200, DULUTH GA, 30096. The official website for the company is www.nationalvision.com. The company can be reached via phone at (770) 822-3600 or via email at investor.relations@nationalvision.com.