New Oriental Education & Tech Grp Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:EDU)

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EDU."

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018, which permits the company to buyback $0.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp (NYSE:EDU) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The company reported $1.44 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.37 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $1.07 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.07 billion. New Oriental Education & Tech Grp had a return on equity of 14.22% and a net margin of 9.79%. The firm's revenue was up 24.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.16 EPS. View New Oriental Education & Tech Grp's Earnings History.

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp.

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp updated its second quarter 2020 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $753.6-771 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $760.2 million.

8 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp's stock. Their forecasts range from $75.00 to $143.00. On average, they expect New Oriental Education & Tech Grp's stock price to reach $111.71 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp in the last year. There are currently 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp.

News articles about EDU stock have trended somewhat negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. New Oriental Education & Tech Grp earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp.

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp saw a drop in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,730,000 shares, a drop of 10.8% from the September 30th total of 3,060,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,080,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. View New Oriental Education & Tech Grp's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to New Oriental Education & Tech Grp include TAL Education Group (TAL), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Chegg (CHGG), Laureate Education (LAUR), GSX Techedu (GSX), Graham (GHC), Strategic Education (STRA), Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Hailiang Education Group (HLG), OneSmart International Edun Gr (ONE), Career Education (CECO), Bright Scholar Education Holdngs (BEDU), Arco Platform (ARCE) and Puxin (NEW).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other New Oriental Education & Tech Grp investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), Baidu (BIDU), NVIDIA (NVDA), TAL Education Group (TAL), Paypal (PYPL), Netflix (NFLX), Mastercard (MA), Shopify (SHOP), Twitter (TWTR) and Square (SQ).

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Genesis Investment Management LLP (2.88%), Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. (0.81%), Broad Peak Investment Holdings Ltd. (0.46%), Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado (0.40%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.34%) and USS Investment Management Ltd (0.33%).

EDU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Coronation Fund Managers Ltd., WT Asset Management Ltd, Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Handelsbanken Fonder AB, SG Americas Securities LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC and Guinness Atkinson Asset Management Inc.

EDU stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Genesis Investment Management LLP, USS Investment Management Ltd, Broad Peak Investment Holdings Ltd., California Public Employees Retirement System, Aubrey Capital Management Ltd, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Paradice Investment Management LLC and Wellington Shields Capital Management LLC.

Shares of EDU 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 EDU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $121.49.

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp has a market capitalization of $17.32 billion and generates $3.10 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $238.07 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.50 on an earnings per share basis. New Oriental Education & Tech Grp employs 64,327 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About New Oriental Education & Tech Grp.

The official website for New Oriental Education & Tech Grp is http://www.neworiental.org/.

New Oriental Education & Tech Grp's mailing address is NO. 6 HAI DIAN ZHONG STREET 9TH FLOOR, BEIJING F4, 100080. The company can be reached via phone at 86-10-6090-8000 or via email at [email protected]