NASDAQ:PPC - Pilgrim's Pride Stock Price, Forecast & News

Pilgrim's Pride trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PPC."

Pilgrim's Pride declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Wednesday, October 31st 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 4.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Pilgrim's Pride Co. (NASDAQ:PPC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The company reported $0.45 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.43 by $0.02. The company earned $2.78 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.74 billion. Pilgrim's Pride had a net margin of 3.24% and a return on equity of 17.87%. The business's revenue was up 3.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.21 earnings per share. View Pilgrim's Pride's Earnings History.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Pilgrim's Pride's stock. Their forecasts range from $32.00 to $36.00. On average, they expect Pilgrim's Pride's stock price to reach $34.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 34.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Pilgrim's Pride.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pilgrim's Pride in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Pilgrim's Pride.

Media headlines about PPC stock have trended somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Pilgrim's Pride earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 1.0 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 News Stories for Pilgrim's Pride.

Pilgrim's Pride saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,380,000 shares, a decline of 6.6% from the January 15th total of 3,620,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 748,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.5 days. Approximately 6.4% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Pilgrim's Pride's Current Options Chain.

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Pilgrim's Pride's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include LSV Asset Management (1.93%), Prudential Financial Inc. (1.17%), AQR Capital Management LLC (1.15%), Man Group plc (0.70%), State Street Corp (0.51%) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.42%). Company insiders that own Pilgrim's Pride stock include Fabio Sandri, Jayson Penn, Michael L Cooper and William W Lovette. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Pilgrim's Pride.

PPC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, AJO LP, First Trust Advisors LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Man Group plc, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Guggenheim Capital LLC and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Pilgrim's Pride company stock in the last year include Fabio Sandri and Jayson Penn. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pilgrim's Pride.

PPC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CI Investments Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Bank of America Corp DE, Centenus Global Management LP and Empire Life Investments Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Pilgrim's Pride.

Shares of PPC 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 PPC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.40.

Pilgrim's Pride has a market capitalization of $6.34 billion and generates $10.94 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $247.94 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.28 on an earnings per share basis. Pilgrim's Pride employs 52,100 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Pilgrim's Pride.

The official website for Pilgrim's Pride is http://www.pilgrims.com/.

Pilgrim's Pride's mailing address is 1770 PROMONTORY CIRCLE, GREELEY CO, 80634. The company can be reached via phone at 970-506-8000 or via email at [email protected]