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 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 had revenue of $117.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $116.19 million. Habit Restaurants had a net margin of 0.79% and a return on equity of 2.29%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 12.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business 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 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Habit Restaurants' shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $17.00. On average, they anticipate Habit Restaurants' share price to reach $15.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.0% 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 been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing 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 news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Habit Restaurants.

Habit Restaurants saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,260,000 shares, a decline 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 currently 4.2 days. Approximately 11.1% of the shares of the company 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), Noodles & Co (NDLS), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Del Frisco's Restaurant Group (DFRG), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) 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 acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Stephens and Stifel were co-managers.

Habit Restaurants' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 $13.97.

Habit Restaurants has a market capitalization of $364.78 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.