Brinker International - EAT Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Brinker International in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" EAT shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EAT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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15 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Brinker International's shares. Their EAT share price forecasts range from $26.00 to $46.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $37.18 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.4%.
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Brinker International's stock was trading at $31.91 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EAT shares have increased by 17.0% and is now trading at $37.33.
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Brinker International saw a decrease in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 4,420,000 shares, a decrease of 13.8% from the February 13th total of 5,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,030,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.3 days. Approximately 10.3% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.
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Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE:EAT) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 1st. The restaurant operator reported $0.76 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.25. The restaurant operator had revenue of $1.02 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $991.74 million. Brinker International had a net margin of 1.87% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 35.47%. Brinker International's revenue was up 10.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.71 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) stock in their portfolio include AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (EATZ), Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD), First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (FYC), iShares US Small Cap Value Factor ETF (SVAL), Fidelity Small-Mid Cap Opportunities ETF (FSMO), iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Value ETF (IJS), SPDR S&P 600 Small CapValue ETF (SLYV) and Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Revenue ETF (RWJ).

Brinker International updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 1st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.60-$2.90 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.56. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.05 billion-$4.15 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.04 billion.

980 employees have rated Brinker International Chief Executive Officer Wyman Roberts on Glassdoor.com. Wyman Roberts has an approval rating of 72% among the company's employees.

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Brinker International trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EAT."

Brinker International's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Franklin Resources Inc. (9.24%), Morgan Stanley (2.66%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.38%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.93%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.79%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.76%). Insiders that own company stock include Charles A Lousignont, Daniel S Fuller, Douglas N Comings, Frances L Allen, Harriet Edelman, Joseph G Taylor, Kelly C Baltes, Michaela M Ware, Pankaj K Patra, Prashant Ranade, Rick Badgley, Steve Provost, Wade Allen and Wyman Roberts.
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One share of EAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.33.

Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) has a market capitalization of $1.64 billion and generates $3.80 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $117.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.64 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 62,025 workers across the globe.

Brinker International's mailing address is 3000 OLYMPUS BLVD, DALLAS TX, 75019. The official website for the company is www.brinker.com. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at (972) 980-9917, via email at investor.relations@brinker.com, or via fax at 972-770-9593.