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

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

Pilgrim's Pride announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase plan on Wednesday, October 31st 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 4.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Pilgrim's Pride Co. (NASDAQ:PPC) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 20th. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.08. The business earned $3.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.89 billion. Pilgrim's Pride had a net margin of 4.00% and a return on equity of 18.04%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 15.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.09 earnings per share. View Pilgrim's Pride's Earnings History.

Pilgrim's Pride is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Pilgrim's Pride.

7 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Pilgrim's Pride's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $36.00. On average, they anticipate Pilgrim's Pride's stock price to reach $33.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 37.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Pilgrim's Pride.

7 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 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Pilgrim's Pride.

Press coverage about PPC stock has been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring 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 coverage optimism score of -3.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Pilgrim's Pride.

Pilgrim's Pride saw a decline in short interest during 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 daily trading volume, of 748,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.5 days. Currently, 6.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Pilgrim's Pride's Current Options Chain.

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Pilgrim's Pride's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional 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 $24.24.

Pilgrim's Pride has a market capitalization of $6.05 billion and generates $11.41 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $247.94 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.62 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]