NASDAQ:PPCPilgrim's Pride Stock Price, Forecast & News

Pilgrim's Pride's stock was trading at $18.40 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PPC stock has increased by 13.5% and is now trading at $20.88. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

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.

Pilgrim's Pride is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Pilgrim's Pride.

Pilgrim's Pride Co. (NASDAQ:PPC) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April, 29th. The company reported $0.18 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.01. The company earned $3.07 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.98 billion. Pilgrim's Pride had a return on equity of 15.14% and a net margin of 3.73%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 12.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.35 EPS. View Pilgrim's Pride's earnings history.

Pilgrim's Pride declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase 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 often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

7 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Pilgrim's Pride's stock. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $36.00. On average, they anticipate Pilgrim's Pride's share price to reach $30.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 47.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Pilgrim's Pride.

Media coverage about PPC stock has trended positive on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Pilgrim's Pride earned a media sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company a news buzz of 7.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutPilgrim's Pride.

Pilgrim's Pride saw a drop in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 2,450,000 shares, a drop of 18.9% from the April 15th total of 3,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,112,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.2 days. Currently, 4.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Pilgrim's Pride's Current Options Chain.

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

Pilgrim's Pride's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (2.03%), AQR Capital Management LLC (1.36%), State Street Corp (0.53%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.43%), Invesco Ltd. (0.36%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (0.32%). 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 APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., AJO LP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Alliancebernstein L.P., Centenus Global Management LP, and BlackRock 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 activity for Pilgrim's Pride.

PPC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, AQR Capital Management LLC, Foundry Partners LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, UBS Group AG, Squarepoint Ops LLC, and Invesco Ltd.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $20.88.

Pilgrim's Pride has a market capitalization of $5.15 billion and generates $11.41 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $455.92 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.62 on an earnings per share basis. Pilgrim's Pride employs 31,900 workers across the globe.

The official website for Pilgrim's Pride is 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]