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

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

BJs Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (NYSE:BJ) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 22nd. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.02. The firm earned $3.35 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.39 billion. BJs Wholesale Club had a net margin of 1.14% and a negative return on equity of 72.36%. BJs Wholesale Club's revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.31 EPS. View BJs Wholesale Club's Earnings History.

BJs Wholesale Club is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club updated its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.42-1.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.48. The company issued revenue guidance of $12.9-13.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.36 billion.

15 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for BJs Wholesale Club's stock. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $38.00. On average, they anticipate BJs Wholesale Club's share price to reach $31.30 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for BJs Wholesale Club.

15 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 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for BJs Wholesale Club.

Press coverage about BJ stock has been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BJs Wholesale Club earned a media sentiment score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 13,451,600 shares, an increase of 28.5% from the June 15th total of 10,470,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,860,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.2 days. Approximately 13.8% of the company's stock are short sold. 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 acted as the underwriters for the IPO.

BJs Wholesale Club's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.74%), Leonard Green & Partners L.P. (7.18%), BlackRock Inc. (5.61%), Putnam Investments LLC (4.10%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (3.93%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.36%). 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, 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 Leonard Green & Partners L.P., BlackRock Inc., Systematic Financial Management LP, Simcoe Capital Management LLC, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Balyasny Asset Management LLC and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc.. 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, Kirk Saville, Kristyn M Sugrue, Lee Delaney, Robert W Eddy, Scott Kessler, Tommy Yin and William C Werner. View Insider Buying and Selling for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including William Blair Investment Management LLC, Invesco Ltd., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc., APG Asset Management N.V. and Renaissance Technologies LLC. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.03.

BJs Wholesale Club has a market capitalization of $3.48 billion and generates $13.01 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $127.26 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.14 on an earnings per share basis. BJs Wholesale Club employs 26,383 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About BJs Wholesale Club.

The official website for BJs Wholesale Club is http://www.bjs.com/.

BJs Wholesale Club's mailing address is 25 RESEARCH DRIVE, WESTBOROUGH MA, 01581. The company can be reached via phone at 774-512-7400 or via email at [email protected]