National Vision - EYE Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street 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 research analysts is that investors should "buy" EYE shares.
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6 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for National Vision's stock. Their EYE share price forecasts range from $24.00 to $45.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $32.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 79.6% from the stock's current price.
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National Vision's stock was trading at $38.76 at the start of the year. Since then, EYE shares have decreased by 54.0% and is now trading at $17.82.
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National Vision saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,470,000 shares, a decline of 23.0% from the February 28th total of 7,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,220,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.5 days. Currently, 7.0% 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) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, March, 1st. The company reported ($0.11) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.11). The firm earned $468.93 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $471.61 million. National Vision had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.16% and a net margin of 2.10%.

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), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 ETF (VIOO), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (VIOV), Franklin U.S. Small Cap Multifactor Index ETF (FLQS) and iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF (IJT).

National Vision announced that its board has initiated a share buyback program on Monday, November 29th 2021, which allows the company to repurchase $100,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 2.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

National Vision issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 1st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.42-$0.60 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS 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 $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 number 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 $17.82.

National Vision (NASDAQ:EYE) has a market capitalization of $1.41 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.