Freshpet (FRPT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

14 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Freshpet in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" FRPT shares.
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14 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Freshpet's stock. Their FRPT share price targets range from $80.00 to $138.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $107.36 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.3%.
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Freshpet's stock was trading at $86.76 at the start of the year. Since then, FRPT shares have increased by 39.5% and is now trading at $121.03.
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Freshpet saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,660,000 shares, an increase of 5.2% from the March 31st total of 5,380,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 595,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.5 days.
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Freshpet, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRPT) released its earnings results on Monday, February, 26th. The company reported $0.31 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.09 by $0.22. The business had revenue of $215.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $204.93 million. Freshpet had a negative net margin of 4.38% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.56%. Freshpet's revenue for the quarter was up 29.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($0.06) earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) stock in their portfolio include ProShares Pet Care ETF (PAWZ), First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX Fund (FXG), LeaderShares Activist Leaders ETF (ACTV), BNY Mellon Innovators ETF (BKIV), Invesco Dorsey Wright Consumer Staples Momentum ETF (PSL), Franklin Disruptive Commerce ETF (BUYZ), First Trust Mid Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (FNY) and Nuveen ESG Small-Cap ETF (NUSC).

Freshpet updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Monday, May, 6th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $950.0 million-, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $955.0 million.

27 employees have rated Freshpet Chief Executive Officer William Cyr on Glassdoor.com. William Cyr has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts William Cyr in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 78.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Freshpet to a friend.

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Freshpet's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wasatch Advisors LP (5.45%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (2.21%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.81%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.29%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.29%) and Deepwater Asset Management LLC (0.24%). Insiders that own company stock include Cathal Walsh, Charles A Norris, Ivan Garcia, Scott James Morris, Stephen Macchiaverna, Stephen Weise, Walter N George and William B Cyr.
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Shares of FRPT stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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