Patterson Companies - PDCO Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Patterson Companies in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" PDCO shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in PDCO, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Patterson Companies' stock. Their PDCO share price forecasts range from $30.00 to $39.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $33.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.7% from the stock's current price.
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Patterson Companies' stock was trading at $28.03 at the beginning of the year. Since then, PDCO stock has increased by 8.1% and is now trading at $30.30.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 1st 2023.
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Patterson Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PDCO) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, December, 1st. The company reported $0.63 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.57 by $0.06. The business had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.68 billion. Patterson Companies had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.93% and a net margin of 3.13%. The business's revenue was down 1.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.58 earnings per share.

Patterson Companies announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 13th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.26 per share on Friday, February 3rd. This represents a $1.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.43%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 19th.
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Patterson Companies (NASDAQ:PDCO) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.41%. The dividend payout ratio is 51.23%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, PDCO will have a dividend payout ratio of 43.15% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Patterson Companies issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Saturday, December, 31st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.25-$2.35 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.26. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

66 employees have rated Patterson Companies Chief Executive Officer Mark Walchirk on Glassdoor.com. Mark Walchirk has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Mark Walchirk in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Patterson Companies trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PDCO."

Patterson Companies' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include River Road Asset Management LLC (2.90%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.54%), Ceredex Value Advisors LLC (0.65%), Sound Income Strategies LLC (0.35%), Peregrine Capital Management LLC (0.32%) and Smith Graham & Co. Investment Advisors LP (0.29%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrea L Frohning, Donald Zurbay, Jody H Feragen, Kevin Michael Barry, Les B Korsh and Les B Korsh.
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Shares of PDCO stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PDCO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.30.

Patterson Companies (NASDAQ:PDCO) has a market capitalization of $2.94 billion and generates $6.50 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $203.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.03 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 7,700 workers across the globe.

Patterson Companies' mailing address is 1031 MENDOTA HEIGHTS RD, ST PAUL MN, 55120. The official website for the company is www.pattersoncompanies.com. The company can be reached via phone at (651) 686-1600, via email at investor.relations@pattersoncompanies.com, or via fax at 651-686-9331.