NYSE:BJ - BJs Wholesale Club Stock Price, Forecast & News

BJs Wholesale Club trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BJ."

BJs Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (NYSE:BJ) issued its earnings results on Thursday, November, 21st. The company reported $0.41 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.01. The firm earned $3.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.30 billion. The company's revenue for the quarter was up .1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.39 earnings per share. View BJs Wholesale Club's Earnings History.

BJs Wholesale Club is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club updated its FY 2019 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $$1.44-1.48 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $$1.49. The company issued revenue guidance of $$12.9-12.9 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$13.28 billion.

13 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for BJs Wholesale Club's shares. Their forecasts range from $25.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate BJs Wholesale Club's stock price to reach $28.85 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 32.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for BJs Wholesale Club.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BJs Wholesale Club in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for BJs Wholesale Club.

Media stories about BJ stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. BJs Wholesale Club earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 15,080,000 shares, an increase of 8.4% from the January 15th total of 13,910,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,310,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.5 days. Currently, 11.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View BJs Wholesale Club's Current Options Chain.

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(BJ) raised $600 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, June 28th 2018. The company issued 37,500,000 shares at $15.00-$17.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan served as the underwriters for the IPO.

BJs Wholesale Club's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (15.00%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (6.91%), State Street Corp (2.70%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.49%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.15%) and Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.90%). Company insiders that own BJs Wholesale Club stock include Brian Poulliot, Caroline Glynn, Christopher J Baldwin, Cvc European Equity V Ltd, Graham Luce, Jeff Desroches, John Kristofer Galashan, Jonathan A Seiffer, Kirk Saville, Kristyn M Sugrue, Lee Delaney, Robert W Eddy, Scott Kessler, Tommy Yin and William C Werner. View Institutional Ownership Trends for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Fred Alger Management LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Eaton Vance Management and Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund. Company insiders that have sold BJs Wholesale Club company stock in the last year include Brian Poulliot, Caroline Glynn, Christopher J Baldwin, Cvc European Equity V Ltd, Graham Luce, Jeff Desroches, John Kristofer Galashan, Jonathan A Seiffer, Kirk Saville, Kristyn M Sugrue, Lee Delaney, Robert W Eddy, Scott Kessler and William C Werner. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJ stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, River Road Asset Management LLC, Franklin Resources Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, William Blair Investment Management LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA and Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJs Wholesale Club.

Shares of BJ 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 BJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $21.86.