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

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

BJs Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (NYSE:BJ) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 22nd. The company reported $0.39 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.37 by $0.02. The company earned $3.35 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.39 billion. BJs Wholesale Club had a net margin of 1.59% and a negative return on equity of 107.71%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm 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 issued an update on its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share 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 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for BJs Wholesale Club's shares. Their forecasts range from $27.00 to $38.00. On average, they expect BJs Wholesale Club's stock price to reach $31.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 18.4% 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.

Media stories about BJ stock have trended somewhat negative on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BJs Wholesale Club earned a coverage optimism score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media 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 stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club saw a decrease in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 11,830,700 shares, a decrease of 15.8% from the July 31st total of 14,048,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,310,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.1 days. Currently, 9.7% 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 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 many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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, John Kristofer Galashan, 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, John Kristofer Galashan, 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 bought 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $26.36.

BJs Wholesale Club has a market capitalization of $3.61 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]