Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - RBA Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" RBA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in RBA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' shares. Their RBA share price forecasts range from $56.00 to $75.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $64.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.3%.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' stock was trading at $61.21 at the start of the year. Since then, RBA stock has increased by 16.5% and is now trading at $71.33.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers saw a increase in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 1,660,000 shares, an increase of 66.0% from the June 15th total of 1,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 463,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.6 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 3rd 2022.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE:RBA) released its earnings results on Thursday, November, 4th. The business services provider reported $0.44 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.32 by $0.12. The business services provider earned $329.70 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $324.38 million. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 27.06% and a net margin of 18.78%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.44 earnings per share.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, August 3rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, August 24th will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share on Wednesday, September 14th. This represents a $1.08 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 23rd. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE:RBA) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.43%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 37.88%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, RBA will have a dividend payout ratio of 47.85% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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34 employees have rated Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Chief Executive Officer Ann Fandozzi on Glassdoor.com. Ann Fandozzi has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Ann Fandozzi in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RBA."

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (6.75%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (4.08%), Eagle Asset Management Inc. (2.93%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (2.48%), Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd (2.42%) and Fiera Capital Corp (2.30%). Insiders that own company stock include Ann Fandozzi, Christopher Zimmerman, Darren Jeffrey Watt, Darren Jeffrey Watt, James J Jeter, James J Jeter, Karl William Werner, Kieran Colquhoun Holm, Matthew Ackley, Sharon Ruth Driscoll and Todd Donald Wohler.
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One share of RBA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $71.33.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE:RBA) has a market capitalization of $7.91 billion and generates $1.42 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $151.87 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.64 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,700 workers across the globe.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers was founded in 1958.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' mailing address is 9500 GLENLYON PARKWAY, BURNABY A1, V5J 0C6. The official website for the company is www.rbauction.com. The business services provider can be reached via phone at (778) 331-5500, via email at ir@rbauction.com, or via fax at 778-331-5501.