NYSE:BJBJs Wholesale Club Stock Price, Forecast & News

BJs Wholesale Club's stock was trading at $21.82 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BJ stock has increased by 64.9% and is now trading at $35.98. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BJs Wholesale Club in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 16 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 27th 2020. View our earnings forecast for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (NYSE:BJ) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 21st. The company reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.32. The firm earned $3.72 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.33 billion. BJs Wholesale Club had a negative return on equity of 360.57% and a net margin of 1.78%. BJs Wholesale Club's quarterly revenue was up 21.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.26 EPS. View BJs Wholesale Club's earnings history.

BJs Wholesale Club updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 5th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.55-1.72 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.63. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.1-13.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.58 billion.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for BJs Wholesale Club's stock. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect BJs Wholesale Club's stock price to reach $36.22 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for BJs Wholesale Club.

Headlines about BJ stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. BJs Wholesale Club earned a news sentiment score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutBJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 12,930,000 shares, an increase of 11.0% from the April 30th total of 11,650,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,480,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.2 days. Currently, 9.6% of the shares of the company are sold short. View BJs Wholesale Club's Current Options Chain.

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(BJ) raised $600 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, June 28th 2018. The company issued 37,500,000 shares at a price of $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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BJ."

BJs Wholesale Club's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.84%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (6.56%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (4.52%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (4.31%), State Street Corp (2.85%) and Invesco Ltd. (2.17%). 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, Rafeh Masood, 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 APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold BJs Wholesale Club company stock in the last year include Brian Poulliot, 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, Rafeh Masood, Robert W Eddy, Scott Kessler, and William C Werner. View insider buying and selling activity for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Franklin Resources Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Primecap Management Co. CA, Oak Ridge Investments LLC, GW&K Investment Management LLC, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., and State Street Corp. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $35.98.

BJs Wholesale Club has a market capitalization of $4.99 billion and generates $13.19 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $187.18 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.46 on an earnings per share basis. BJs Wholesale Club employs 27,231 workers across the globe.

The official website for BJs Wholesale Club is 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]