Build-A-Bear Workshop Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BBW)

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Build-A-Bear Workshop in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BBW shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Build-A-Bear Workshop's shares. Their BBW share price targets range from $36.00 to $42.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $38.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 57.9% from the stock's current price.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop's stock was trading at $23.84 at the start of the year. Since then, BBW shares have increased by 2.7% and is now trading at $24.49.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,960,000 shares, an increase of 11.4% from the October 15th total of 1,760,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 233,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 8.4 days. Currently, 14.9% 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 Thursday, March 14th 2024.
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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE:BBW) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 30th. The specialty retailer reported $0.53 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.02. The specialty retailer earned $107.56 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $107.57 million. Build-A-Bear Workshop had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 44.36% and a net margin of 10.59%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.51 earnings per share.

Build-A-Bear Workshop announced a special dividend on Wednesday, March 8th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 23rd will be paid a dividend of $1.50 per share on Thursday, April 6th. This is an increase from the stock's previous special dividend of $1.25.
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225 employees have rated Build-A-Bear Workshop Chief Executive Officer Sharon John on Glassdoor.com. Sharon John has an approval rating of 62% among the company's employees. This puts Sharon John in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Build-A-Bear Workshop's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Cannell Capital LLC (7.15%), Pacific Ridge Capital Partners LLC (2.51%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (1.61%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.45%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.37%) and Qube Research & Technologies Ltd (1.20%). Insiders that own company stock include Cannell Capital Llc, Craig Leavitt, Derek J Maetzold, Eric R Fencl, George Carrara, J Christopher Hurt, Jennifer Kretchmar, Maxine Clark, Robert L Dixon Jr, Sharon Price John and Vojin Todorovic.
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