NASDAQ:FRGI - Fiesta Restaurant Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Fiesta Restaurant Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FRGI."

Fiesta Restaurant Group declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, February 27th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase 1,500,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Fiesta Restaurant Group Inc (NASDAQ:FRGI) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 5th. The restaurant operator reported $0.01 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.09 by $0.08. The restaurant operator had revenue of $164.20 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $164.39 million. Fiesta Restaurant Group had a positive return on equity of 5.52% and a negative net margin of 10.65%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 6.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.11 earnings per share. View Fiesta Restaurant Group's Earnings History.

Fiesta Restaurant Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

Fiesta Restaurant Group will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 26th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

1 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Fiesta Restaurant Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $14.00. On average, they expect Fiesta Restaurant Group's share price to reach $14.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 34.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fiesta Restaurant Group in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

News articles about FRGI stock have trended extremely negative on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fiesta Restaurant Group earned a daily sentiment score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

Fiesta Restaurant Group saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,680,000 shares, an increase of 22.9% from the January 15th total of 2,180,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 305,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 8.8 days. Approximately 10.0% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Fiesta Restaurant Group's Current Options Chain.

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Fiesta Restaurant Group's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (2.37%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.95%), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (1.34%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.18%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.98%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.71%). Company insiders that own Fiesta Restaurant Group stock include Jack A Smith, Jefferies Financial Group Inc, Joseph Brink, National Corp Leucadia and Richard C Stockinger. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

FRGI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including THB Asset Management, State Street Corp, AQR Capital Management LLC, KBC Group NV, Cetera Advisors LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Arizona State Retirement System and Alambic Investment Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

FRGI stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., B. Riley Financial Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Russell Investments Group Ltd., UBS Group AG and Alpine Global Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Fiesta Restaurant Group stock in the last two years include Jack A Smith, Jefferies Financial Group Inc, National Corp Leucadia and Richard C Stockinger. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fiesta Restaurant Group.

Shares of FRGI 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 FRGI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.40.

Fiesta Restaurant Group has a market capitalization of $285.75 million and generates $688.60 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $7.79 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.60 on an earnings per share basis. Fiesta Restaurant Group employs 10,220 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Fiesta Restaurant Group.

The official website for Fiesta Restaurant Group is http://www.frgi.com/.

Fiesta Restaurant Group's mailing address is 14800 LANDMARK BOULEVARD SUITE 500, DALLAS TX, 75254. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 972-702-9300 or via email at [email protected]