Chico's FAS Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CHS)

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Chico's FAS in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" CHS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CHS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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2 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Chico's FAS's stock. Their CHS share price targets range from $7.25 to $7.60. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $7.43 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.7%.
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Chico's FAS's stock was trading at $4.92 at the beginning of the year. Since then, CHS stock has increased by 53.5% and is now trading at $7.55.
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Chico's FAS saw a decrease in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,200,000 shares, a decrease of 6.0% from the October 31st total of 8,720,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 6.9% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 27th 2024.
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Chico's FAS, Inc. (NYSE:CHS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 30th. The specialty retailer reported $0.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.01. The specialty retailer earned $505.13 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $512.65 million. Chico's FAS had a net margin of 5.30% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 24.68%.

Chico's FAS (NYSE:CHS) pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.00%. The dividend payout ratio is 39.56%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CHS will have a dividend payout ratio of 49.32% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Chico's FAS (NYSE:CHS) stock in their portfolio include First Trust Dow Jones Select Microcap Index Fund (FDM), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF (CALF) and Invesco S&P SmallCap Value with Momentum ETF (XSVM).Invesco Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (OMFS).

23 employees have rated Chico's FAS Chief Executive Officer Molly Langenstein on Glassdoor.com. Molly Langenstein has an approval rating of 84% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Chico's FAS investors own include Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Macy's (M), Energy Transfer (ET), AT&T (T), Ford Motor (F), Chimera Investment (CIM), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Coty (COTY), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) and ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR).

Chico's FAS's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Global Alpha Capital Management Ltd. (3.10%), Morgan Stanley (2.40%), Invesco Ltd. (1.91%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.61%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.55%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.04%).
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Shares of CHS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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