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

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

Habit Restaurants Inc (NASDAQ:HABT) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 30th. The restaurant operator reported $0.06 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.01 by $0.05. The restaurant operator had revenue of $117.30 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $116.19 million. Habit Restaurants had a return on equity of 2.29% and a net margin of 0.79%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 12.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.05 earnings per share. 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 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Habit Restaurants' shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $17.00. On average, they expect Habit Restaurants' share price to reach $15.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.3% 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.

Press coverage about HABT stock has trended somewhat negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Habit Restaurants earned a media sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Habit Restaurants.

Habit Restaurants saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,770,000 shares, an increase of 5.3% from the November 28th total of 2,630,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 332,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.3 days. Approximately 13.6% of the company's shares are sold short. 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), Bojangles (BOJA), Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), El Pollo LoCo (LOCO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Chuy's (CHUY), Noodles & Co (NDLS), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Del Frisco's Restaurant Group (DFRG), Biglari (BH) and Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST).

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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 a price of $14.00-$16.00 per share. Piper Jaffray, Baird, Wells Fargo Securities and Raymond James acted 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 Lucia Wealth Services LLC (2.46%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.06%). 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Lucia Wealth Services LLC and California Public Employees Retirement System. 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 $13.93.

Habit Restaurants has a market capitalization of $363.74 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.