Arcos Dorados - ARCO Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Arcos Dorados in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" ARCO shares.
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5 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Arcos Dorados' stock. Their ARCO share price forecasts range from $7.00 to $12.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $9.30 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 26.4% from the stock's current price.
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Arcos Dorados' stock was trading at $5.83 at the beginning of the year. Since then, ARCO shares have increased by 26.2% and is now trading at $7.36.
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Arcos Dorados saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,080,000 shares, an increase of 13.8% from the July 15th total of 948,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 864,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.2 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 9th 2022.
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Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (NYSE:ARCO) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 10th. The restaurant operator reported $0.07 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.13 by $0.06. Arcos Dorados had a net margin of 3.43% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 52.60%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.03 EPS.

Arcos Dorados declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 18th. Investors of record on Monday, December 26th will be paid a dividend of $0.03 per share on Friday, December 30th. This represents a $0.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.63%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 22nd.
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Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.14%. The dividend payout ratio is 30.19%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ARCO will have a dividend payout ratio of 28.07% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Arcos Dorados trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ARCO."

Arcos Dorados' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.87%), Private Management Group Inc. (1.06%), Millennium Management LLC (0.83%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.70%), Handelsbanken Fonder AB (0.42%) and Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. (0.40%).

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One share of ARCO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $7.36.

Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) has a market capitalization of $1.55 billion and generates $2.66 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $45.49 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.53 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 81,256 workers across the globe.

Arcos Dorados' mailing address is Dr. Luis Bonavita 1294 Office 501, Montevideo X3, 11300. The official website for the company is www.arcosdorados.com. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at (982) 626-3000, via email at ir@ar.mcd.com, or via fax at 598 2626-3018.