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

Pilgrim's Pride's stock was trading at $18.40 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PPC stock has decreased by 10.9% and is now trading at $16.40.
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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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 29th. The company reported ($0.02) EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.13. The firm had revenue of $2.82 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.93 billion. Pilgrim's Pride had a net margin of 2.24% and a return on equity of 7.89%. The company's revenue was down .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.69 earnings per share.
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Pilgrim's Pride declared that its board has initiated a share buyback plan on Wednesday, October 31st 2018, which permits the company to buyback $200,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 4.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

6 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Pilgrim's Pride's shares. Their forecasts range from $19.00 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Pilgrim's Pride's share price to reach $25.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 52.4% from the stock's current price.
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Press coverage about PPC stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news 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 negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Pilgrim's Pride earned a media sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage 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 company's share price in the immediate future.
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Pilgrim's Pride saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,040,000 shares, an increase of 24.6% from the April 30th total of 2,440,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,166,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.6 days. Currently, 5.8% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Pilgrim's Pride trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PPC."

Pilgrim's Pride's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include LSV Asset Management (1.91%), Prudential Financial Inc. (1.04%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.49%), Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc. (0.27%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.27%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.23%). Company insiders that own Pilgrim's Pride stock include Fabio Sandri, Jayson Penn and William W Lovette.
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PPC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., UBS Group AG, AJO LP, Mackay Shields LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., and Principal Financial Group Inc..
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PPC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pinnacle Wealth Planning Services Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Bank of Nova Scotia, Personal Capital Advisors Corp, Bank of Montreal Can, Ensign Peak Advisors Inc, First Trust Advisors LP, and Aigen Investment 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 $16.40.

Pilgrim's Pride has a market capitalization of $4.00 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]