NASDAQ:TAST - Carrols Restaurant Group Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Carrols Restaurant Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "TAST."

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TAST) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 6th. The restaurant operator reported $0.09 EPS for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.09. The restaurant operator earned $297 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $298.52 million. Carrols Restaurant Group had a return on equity of 8.62% and a net margin of 1.06%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 4.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.08 EPS. View Carrols Restaurant Group's Earnings History.

Carrols Restaurant Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 27th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Carrols Restaurant Group.

Carrols Restaurant Group issued an update on its FY 2018 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.17-1.18 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.18 billion.

3 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Carrols Restaurant Group's shares. Their predictions range from $14.00 to $19.00. On average, they anticipate Carrols Restaurant Group's stock price to reach $16.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 56.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Carrols Restaurant Group.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Carrols Restaurant Group in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Carrols Restaurant Group.

Press coverage about TAST stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Carrols Restaurant Group earned a daily sentiment score of 1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Carrols Restaurant Group saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,811,967 shares, an increase of 43.9% from the October 15th total of 1,259,168 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 191,720 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.5 days. Currently, 5.3% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Carrols Restaurant Group's Current Options Chain.

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Carrols Restaurant Group's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.97%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.48%), Brown Advisory Inc. (5.99%), Private Capital Management LLC (5.29%), Vanguard Group Inc. (4.40%) and First Manhattan Co. (3.75%). Company insiders that own Carrols Restaurant Group stock include Daniel T Accordino, Paul R Flanders, Timothy Lalonde and William E Myers. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Carrols Restaurant Group.

TAST stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Eagle Asset Management Inc., First Manhattan Co., Alambic Investment Management L.P., Royce & Associates LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd., BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, FMR LLC and Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Carrols Restaurant Group company stock in the last year include Paul R Flanders and William E Myers. View Insider Buying and Selling for Carrols Restaurant Group.

TAST stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, BlackRock Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, TIAA CREF Investment Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Panagora Asset Management Inc. and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA. View Insider Buying and Selling for Carrols Restaurant Group.

Shares of TAST 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of TAST stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.57.

Carrols Restaurant Group has a market capitalization of $386.22 million and generates $1.09 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $7.15 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.20 on an earnings per share basis. Carrols Restaurant Group employs 23,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for Carrols Restaurant Group is http://www.carrols.com.

Carrols Restaurant Group's mailing address is 968 JAMES STREET, SYRACUSE NY, 13203. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 315-424-0513 or via email at [email protected]