PriceSmart Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:PSMT)

PriceSmart trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PSMT."

PriceSmart announced a semiannual dividend on Friday, February 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 15th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Thursday, February 28th. This represents a yield of 1.15%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 14th. View PriceSmart's Dividend History.

PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSMT) issued its earnings results on Thursday, July, 5th. The company reported $0.61 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.08. The business earned $782.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $787.19 million. PriceSmart had a return on equity of 11.19% and a net margin of 2.23%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 7.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.62 EPS. View PriceSmart's Earnings History.

PriceSmart is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for PriceSmart.

PriceSmart will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, October 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for PriceSmart's shares. Their predictions range from $61.70 to $61.70. On average, they anticipate PriceSmart's stock price to reach $61.70 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for PriceSmart.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PriceSmart in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for PriceSmart.

PriceSmart same-store sales increased by 0.9% during the month of September. PriceSmart stock fell by 0.3% in the first day of trading following the news.

News coverage about PSMT stock has trended negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. PriceSmart earned a daily sentiment score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for PriceSmart.

PriceSmart saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,710,000 shares, an increase of 171.4% from the August 30th total of 630,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 279,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.1 days. Approximately 8.6% of the shares of the company are sold short. View PriceSmart's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PriceSmart investors own include Micron Technology (MU), United Technologies (UTX), QUALCOMM (QCOM), TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE (TTWO), Caterpillar (CAT), salesforce.com (CRM), Walt Disney (DIS), Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR), Visa (V) and IPG Photonics (IPGP).

PriceSmart's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%) and North Star Investment Management Corp. (0.01%). Company insiders that own PriceSmart stock include Chong Jesus Von, Frank Ramon Diaz, Gordon H Hanson, John D Hildebrandt, John Heffner, Jose Luis Laparte, Mitchell G Lynn, Philanthropies Foundatio Price, Robert E Price, Rodrigo Calvo, Sherry S Bahrambeygui and William J Naylon. View Institutional Ownership Trends for PriceSmart.

PSMT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue and North Star Investment Management Corp.. View Insider Buying and Selling for PriceSmart.

Shares of PSMT 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 PSMT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $66.27.

PriceSmart has a market capitalization of $2.02 billion and generates $3.17 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $74.32 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.43 on an earnings per share basis. PriceSmart employs 8,680 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About PriceSmart.

The official website for PriceSmart is http://www.pricesmart.com/.

PriceSmart's mailing address is 9740 SCRANTON ROAD, SAN DIEGO CA, 92121. The company can be reached via phone at 858-404-8800 or via email at [email protected]