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

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

Habit Restaurants Inc (NASDAQ:HABT) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The restaurant operator reported $0.06 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.01 by $0.05. The restaurant operator earned $117.30 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $116.19 million. Habit Restaurants had a return on equity of 2.29% and a net margin of 0.79%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 12.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company 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 brokers have issued 1-year target prices 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 twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.4% 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.

Headlines about HABT stock have been trending somewhat positive on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news 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 news impact score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. 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 presently 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), Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), Bojangles (BOJA), El Pollo LoCo (LOCO), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Chuy's (CHUY), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Noodles & Co (NDLS), Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Del Frisco's Restaurant Group (DFRG) and Biglari (BH).

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(HABT) raised $75 million in an initial public offering 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.

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 $13.92.

Habit Restaurants has a market capitalization of $363.48 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.