NASDAQ:PEIX - Pacific Ethanol Stock Price, Price Target & More

Pacific Ethanol trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PEIX."

Pacific Ethanol Inc (NASDAQ:PEIX) released its earnings results on Friday, May, 11th. The oil and gas company reported ($0.19) EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.29) by $0.10. The oil and gas company had revenue of $400.03 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $411.18 million. Pacific Ethanol had a negative return on equity of 7.78% and a negative net margin of 1.83%. View Pacific Ethanol's Earnings History.

Pacific Ethanol is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 31st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Pacific Ethanol.

3 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Pacific Ethanol's stock. Their forecasts range from $7.00 to $14.00. On average, they expect Pacific Ethanol's share price to reach $11.3333 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 290.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Pacific Ethanol.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pacific Ethanol in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

Pacific Ethanol saw a decline in short interest during the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 767,280 shares, a decline of 64.5% from the June 15th total of 2,162,454 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,467,589 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.5 days. Currently, 1.8% of the company's stock are short sold. View Pacific Ethanol's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Pacific Ethanol include Amyris (AMRS), Sino United Worldwide Consolidated (SUIC), China Insonline (WAYS), Tantech (TANH), CTD (CTDH), Aemetis (AMTX), Gevo (GEVO), OriginClear (OCLN), Methes Energies International (MEIL) and Mission Newenergy (MNELF).

Press coverage about PEIX stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Pacific Ethanol earned a media sentiment score of 0.02 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the oil and gas company an impact score of 45.16 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Pacific Ethanol's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include DnB Asset Management AS (5.53%). Company insiders that own Pacific Ethanol stock include Bryon T Mcgregor, Candlewood Investment Group, L, Christopher W Wright, John L Prince, Larry D Layne, Michael D Kandris, Neil M Koehler, Paul Koehler and William L Jones. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Pacific Ethanol.

PEIX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DnB Asset Management AS. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pacific Ethanol.

Shares of PEIX 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PEIX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.90.

Pacific Ethanol has a market capitalization of $105.14 million and generates $1.63 billion in revenue each year. The oil and gas company earns $-34,960,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.85) on an earnings per share basis. Pacific Ethanol employs 560 workers across the globe.

Pacific Ethanol's mailing address is 400 CAPITOL MALL SUITE 2060, SACRAMENTO CA, 95814. The oil and gas company can be reached via phone at 916-403-2123 or via email at [email protected]