NASDAQ:ODPOffice Depot Stock Price, Forecast & News

Office Depot's stock was trading at $1.94 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, ODP stock has decreased by 10.1% and is now trading at $1.7450. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Office Depot in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View analyst ratings for Office Depot.

Office Depot is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Office Depot.

Office Depot Inc (NASDAQ:ODP) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 26th. The specialty retailer reported $0.12 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.09 by $0.03. The specialty retailer earned $2.51 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.62 billion. Office Depot had a net margin of 0.93% and a return on equity of 10.74%. 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 company posted $0.09 earnings per share. View Office Depot's earnings history.

Office Depot declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 4th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.025 per share on Friday, March 13th. This represents a $0.10 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.73%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 28th. View Office Depot's dividend history.

Office Depot declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Tuesday, November 20th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $100,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 6.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Office Depot updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $10.5-10.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $10.46 billion.

1 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for Office Depot's shares. Their forecasts range from $1.20 to $1.20. On average, they expect Office Depot's share price to reach $1.20 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 31.2%. View analysts' price targets for Office Depot.

Media stories about ODP stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Office Depot earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the specialty retailer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutOffice Depot.

Office Depot saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 24,881,800 shares, an increase of 11.5% from the February 27th total of 22,320,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,520,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.8 days. Approximately 4.8% of the company's shares are sold short. View Office Depot's Current Options Chain.

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Office Depot trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ODP."

Office Depot's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.09%). Company insiders that own Office Depot stock include Joseph T Lower, Joseph Vassalluzzo and Nigel Travis. View institutional ownership trends for Office Depot.

ODP stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have bought Office Depot stock in the last two years include Joseph T Lower, Joseph Vassalluzzo, and Nigel Travis. View insider buying and selling activity for Office Depot.

Shares of ODP 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 ODP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1.75.

Office Depot has a market capitalization of $923.26 million and generates $10.65 billion in revenue each year. The specialty retailer earns $99 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.41 on an earnings per share basis. Office Depot employs 40,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about Office Depot.

The official website for Office Depot is http://www.officedepot.com/.

Office Depot's mailing address is 6600 NORTH MILITARY TRAIL, BOCA RATON FL, 33496. The specialty retailer can be reached via phone at 561-438-4800 or via email at [email protected]