Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Abercrombie & Fitch in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" ANF shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ANF, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Abercrombie & Fitch's stock. Their ANF share price forecasts range from $17.00 to $33.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $28.75 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.2%.
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Abercrombie & Fitch's stock was trading at $22.91 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, ANF shares have increased by 42.9% and is now trading at $32.73.
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Abercrombie & Fitch saw a increase in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 6,240,000 shares, an increase of 16.0% from the April 15th total of 5,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,490,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.2 days. Currently, 13.2% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 24th 2023.
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE:ANF) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 24th. The apparel retailer reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.02) by $0.41. The apparel retailer earned $836 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $814.93 million. Abercrombie & Fitch had a net margin of 0.96% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.82%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned ($0.27) earnings per share.

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Abercrombie & Fitch announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Tuesday, November 23rd 2021, which permits the company to buyback $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 22.3% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Abercrombie & Fitch issued an update on its second quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, May, 26th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $837.20 million-$853.30 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $813.27 million.

485 employees have rated Abercrombie & Fitch Chief Executive Officer Fran Horowitz on Glassdoor.com. Fran Horowitz has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

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Abercrombie & Fitch trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ANF."

Abercrombie & Fitch's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (16.58%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (6.54%), State Street Corp (4.24%), Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership (3.12%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (2.01%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.95%). Insiders that own company stock include Charles R Perrin, Fran Horowitz, Kerrii B Anderson, Kristin A Scott, Kristin A Scott, Sarah M Gallagher, Scott D Lipesky, Suzanne M Coulter and Terry Lee Burman.
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Shares of ANF stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of ANF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.73.

Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) has a market capitalization of $1.64 billion and generates $3.70 billion in revenue each year. The apparel retailer earns $2.82 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.70 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 29,600 workers across the globe.

Abercrombie & Fitch's mailing address is 6301 FITCH PATH, NEW ALBANY OH, 43054. The official website for the company is www.abercrombie.com. The apparel retailer can be reached via phone at (614) 283-6500, via email at investor_relations@anfcorp.com, or via fax at 302-655-5049.