Helen of Troy - HELE Stock Forecast, Price & News

Helen of Troy Limited provides various consumer products in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company operates through three segments: Home & Outdoor, Health & Wellness, and Beauty. The Home & Outdoor segment offers food preparation tools and gadgets, storage containers, and organization products; coffee makers, grinders, manual pour overs, and tea kettles; household cleaning products, shower organization, and bathroom accessories; feeding and drinking products, child seating products, cleaning tools, and nursery accessories; insulated water bottles, hydration packs, drinkware, mugs, food containers, lunch containers, insulated totes, soft coolers, and accessories; and technical and outdoor sports packs, travel packs, luggage, daypacks, and everyday packs. The Health & Wellness segment provides thermometers, blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, nasal aspirators, and humidifiers; faucet mount water-filtration systems and pitcher-based water filtration systems; and air purifiers, heaters, fans, and humidifiers. The Beauty segment offers grooming brushes, tools, and decorative hair accessories; and shampoos, liquid hair styling, and treatment and conditioning products, as well as hair appliances. The company sells its products through mass merchandisers, drugstore chains, warehouse clubs, home improvement stores, grocery and specialty stores, beauty supply and e-commerce retailers, wholesalers, and various types of distributors, as well as directly to consumers under the OXO, Good Grips, Hydro Flask, Soft Works, OXO tot, OXO Brew, OXO Strive, OXO Outdoor, Osprey, PUR, Honeywell, Braun, Vicks, Drybar, Hot Tools, Revlon, and Bed Head brands. Helen of Troy Limited was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in El Paso, Texas.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research firms have recently commented on HELE. CL King lowered their price objective on shares of Helen of Troy from $282.00 to $206.00 in a research note on Tuesday, June 28th. Raymond James initiated coverage on shares of Helen of Troy in a report on Tuesday, July 12th. They issued a "market perform" rating on the stock. TheStreet cut shares of Helen of Troy from a "b-" rating to a "c+" rating in a report on Thursday, June 16th. StockNews.com cut shares of Helen of Troy from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Saturday, July 16th. Finally, DA Davidson cut their price objective on shares of Helen of Troy from $244.00 to $175.00 and set a "neutral" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, July 8th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $214.67.

Helen of Troy Stock Up 0.6 %

HELE Stock opened at $138.20 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 1.95, a quick ratio of 0.93 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80. Helen of Troy has a twelve month low of $123.57 and a twelve month high of $256.26. The company's 50 day moving average is $144.62 and its two-hundred day moving average is $181.09. The stock has a market cap of $3.31 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.56, a PEG ratio of 2.05 and a beta of 0.62.

Helen of Troy (NASDAQ:HELE - Get Rating) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, July 7th. The company reported $1.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.61 by $0.16. The business had revenue of $508.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $474.17 million. Helen of Troy had a net margin of 8.74% and a return on equity of 18.08%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 6.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.95 earnings per share. Research analysts expect that Helen of Troy will post 8.36 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.