NASDAQ:RUTHRuth's Hospitality Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Ruth's Hospitality Group's stock was trading at $13.70 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, RUTH shares have decreased by 38.2% and is now trading at $8.47. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ruth's Hospitality Group in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Ruth's Hospitality Group.

Ruth's Hospitality Group is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, August 7th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Ruth's Hospitality Group.

Ruth's Hospitality Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:RUTH) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, May, 8th. The restaurant operator reported $0.09 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.26 by $0.17. The restaurant operator earned $108.54 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $112.11 million. Ruth's Hospitality Group had a return on equity of 35.35% and a net margin of 5.36%. View Ruth's Hospitality Group's earnings history.

Ruth's Hospitality Group declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 24th. Investors of record on Friday, March 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Friday, March 20th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.08%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 5th. This is an increase from Ruth's Hospitality Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.13. View Ruth's Hospitality Group's dividend history.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Ruth's Hospitality Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $24.00. On average, they expect Ruth's Hospitality Group's stock price to reach $14.95 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 76.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Ruth's Hospitality Group.

News stories about RUTH stock have trended very positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ruth's Hospitality Group earned a news impact score of 3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the restaurant operator 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 near term. View the latest news aboutRuth's Hospitality Group.

Ruth's Hospitality Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,760,000 shares, an increase of 24.9% from the April 30th total of 2,210,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,270,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Approximately 10.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Ruth's Hospitality Group's Current Options Chain.

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Ruth's Hospitality Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "RUTH."

Ruth's Hospitality Group's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (15.70%), State Street Corp (3.38%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.18%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.99%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.12%) and North Peak Capital Management LLC (1.75%). View institutional ownership trends for Ruth's Hospitality Group.

RUTH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc., Invesco Ltd., AQR Capital Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., BlackRock Inc., and Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Ruth's Hospitality Group.

RUTH stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., North Peak Capital Management LLC, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., State Street Corp, GSA Capital Partners LLP, WINTON GROUP Ltd, and Engineers Gate Manager LP. View insider buying and selling activity for Ruth's Hospitality Group.

Shares of RUTH 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 RUTH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.47.

Ruth's Hospitality Group has a market capitalization of $242.07 million and generates $468.03 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $42.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.43 on an earnings per share basis. Ruth's Hospitality Group employs 5,740 workers across the globe.

The official website for Ruth's Hospitality Group is www.rhgi.com.

Ruth's Hospitality Group's mailing address is 1030 W. CANTON AVENUE SUITE 100, WINTER PARK FL, 32789. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 407-333-7440 or via email at [email protected]