PriceSmart (PSMT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PriceSmart in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" PSMT shares.
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1 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for PriceSmart's shares. Their PSMT share price targets range from $90.00 to $90.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $90.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.6% from the stock's current price.
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PriceSmart's stock was trading at $75.78 at the start of the year. Since then, PSMT shares have increased by 7.4% and is now trading at $81.38.
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PriceSmart saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 729,700 shares, a decrease of 23.2% from the March 15th total of 949,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 144,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.0 days. Approximately 3.0% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July 8th 2024.
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PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSMT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 10th. The company reported $1.31 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.24 by $0.07. The business earned $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.28 billion. PriceSmart had a net margin of 2.62% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.85%. PriceSmart's revenue was up 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.25 EPS.

PriceSmart declared a None dividend on Wednesday, April 3rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 19th will be given a dividend of $1.00 per share on Tuesday, April 30th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 18th.
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PriceSmart (NASDAQ:PSMT) pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.46%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 29.15%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, PSMT will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.97% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of PriceSmart (NASDAQ:PSMT) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF (PSCC), QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Next Value ETF (NVQ), Harbor Corporate Culture Small Cap ETF (HAPS) and Syntax Stratified SmallCap ETF (SSLY).SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap ETF (SLY).

21 employees have rated PriceSmart Chief Executive Officer Jose Luis Laparte on Glassdoor.com. Jose Luis Laparte has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Jose Luis Laparte in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other PriceSmart investors own include Salesforce (CRM), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), AbbVie (ABBV), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Visa (V), Home Depot (HD) and Starbucks (SBUX).

PriceSmart's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fourth Sail Capital LP (0.09%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.05%) and Diversified Trust Co (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Ana Luisa Bianchi, Chong Jesus Von, Christopher S Souhrada, Edgar Zurcher, Francisco Velasco, Frank Ramon Diaz, Gordon H Hanson, John D Hildebrandt, Juan Ignacio Biehl, Nicolas Maslowski, Philanthropies Foundatio Price, Robert E Price, Robert E Price, Rodrigo Calvo and Sherry S Bahrambeygui.
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