NASDAQ:HABT - Habit Restaurants Stock Price, Forecast & News

Habit Restaurants trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HABT."

Habit Restaurants Inc (NASDAQ:HABT) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 30th. The restaurant operator reported $0.06 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.01 by $0.05. The restaurant operator earned $117.30 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $116.19 million. Habit Restaurants had a net margin of 0.79% and a return on equity of 2.29%. Habit Restaurants's revenue was up 12.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.05 EPS. View Habit Restaurants' Earnings History.

Habit Restaurants is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Habit Restaurants.

4 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Habit Restaurants' stock. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $17.00. On average, they anticipate Habit Restaurants' stock price to reach $15.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Habit Restaurants.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Habit Restaurants in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Habit Restaurants.

Media coverage about HABT stock has trended extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Habit Restaurants earned a daily sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Habit Restaurants.

Habit Restaurants saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,260,000 shares, a drop of 14.7% from the January 15th total of 2,650,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 537,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.2 days. Currently, 11.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Habit Restaurants' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Habit Restaurants include Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Denny's (DENN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), Bojangles (BOJA), El Pollo LoCo (LOCO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Chuy's (CHUY), Noodles & Co (NDLS), Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Del Frisco's Restaurant Group (DFRG) and Biglari (BH).

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(HABT) raised $75 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, November 20th 2014. The company issued 5,000,000 shares at $14.00-$16.00 per share. Piper Jaffray, Baird, Wells Fargo Securities and Raymond James served as the underwriters for the IPO and Stephens and Stifel were co-managers.

Habit Restaurants' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Renaissance Technologies LLC (6.18%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (3.94%), Lucia Wealth Services LLC (2.46%), Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC (2.29%), Penn Capital Management Co. Inc. (2.26%) and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (1.44%). Company insiders that own Habit Restaurants stock include Anthony Serritella, Ira L Zecher and Peter Whitwell. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Habit Restaurants.

HABT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Marshall Wace LLP, Jefferies Group LLC, Marshall Wace North America L.P., Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Penn Capital Management Co. Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc. and Renaissance Technologies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Habit Restaurants company stock in the last year include Ira L Zecher and Peter Whitwell. View Insider Buying and Selling for Habit Restaurants.

HABT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including William Blair Investment Management LLC, Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., Crown Advisors Management Inc., Driehaus Capital Management LLC, Lucia Wealth Services LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. and Bank of Montreal Can. View Insider Buying and Selling for Habit Restaurants.

Shares of HABT 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 HABT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $13.98.

Habit Restaurants has a market capitalization of $365.02 million and generates $402.15 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $2.78 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.17 on an earnings per share basis. Habit Restaurants employs 6,093 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Habit Restaurants.

The official website for Habit Restaurants is http://www.habitburger.com/.

Habit Restaurants' mailing address is 17320 REDHILL AVENUE SUITE 140, IRVINE CA, 92614. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 949-851-8881.