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

BJs Wholesale Club's stock was trading at $21.82 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BJ stock has increased by 17.3% and is now trading at $25.60. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BJs Wholesale Club in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 14 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, May 28th 2020. View our earnings forecast for BJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (NYSE:BJ) issued its earnings results on Thursday, March, 5th. The company reported $0.40 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.40. The firm earned $3.39 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.47 billion. BJs Wholesale Club had a net margin of 1.42% and a negative return on equity of 172.28%. The company's revenue was up 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.44 earnings per share. View BJs Wholesale Club's earnings history.

BJs Wholesale Club updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 5th. The company provided EPS 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.

16 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for BJs Wholesale Club's shares. Their forecasts range from $25.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect BJs Wholesale Club's share price to reach $29.15 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.9% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for BJs Wholesale Club.

News articles about BJ stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutBJs Wholesale Club.

BJs Wholesale Club saw a decline in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 11,991,700 shares, a decline of 5.2% from the February 27th total of 12,650,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,760,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.8 days. Approximately 8.9% of the company's stock 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 $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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BJ."

BJs Wholesale Club's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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, 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 Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Fred Alger Management LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Alliancebernstein L.P., Renaissance Technologies LLC, and Man Group plc. 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, 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 Norges Bank, State Street Corp, River Road Asset Management LLC, Franklin Resources Inc., Franklin Resources Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, and William Blair Investment Management LLC. 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 $25.60.

BJs Wholesale Club has a market capitalization of $3.51 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. 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]