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. Since then, PPC shares have decreased by 17.8% and is now trading at $15.12.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Pilgrim's Pride in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Pilgrim's Pride is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 4th 2020.
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Pilgrim's Pride Co. (NASDAQ:PPC) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 29th. The company reported ($0.02) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.13. The business earned $2.82 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.93 billion. Pilgrim's Pride had a return on equity of 7.89% and a net margin of 2.24%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.69 earnings per share.
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Pilgrim's Pride announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, October 31st 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $200,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 4.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

6 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Pilgrim's Pride's stock. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $32.00. On average, they expect Pilgrim's Pride's share price to reach $25.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 65.3% from the stock's current price.
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Headlines about PPC stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group ranks 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 news sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.
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Pilgrim's Pride saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,460,000 shares, an increase of 11.8% from the June 30th total of 2,200,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Currently, 4.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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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 investors include Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc. (0.27%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.20%), Foundry Partners LLC (0.15%), Mackay Shields LLC (0.09%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.04%) and Hudson Capital Management LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own Pilgrim's Pride stock include Fabio Sandri, Jayson Penn, Michael L Cooper and William W Lovette.
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PPC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, Mackay Shields LLC, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Vident Investment Advisory LLC, Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC, and New York State Teachers Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Pilgrim's Pride company stock in the last year include Fabio Sandri, and Jayson Penn.
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PPC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Strs Ohio, Denali Advisors LLC, New England Research & Management Inc., SG Americas Securities LLC, Foundry Partners LLC, and Sciencast Management LP.
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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 $15.12.

Pilgrim's Pride has a market capitalization of $3.73 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]