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

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 5 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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11 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' shares. Their RBA share price forecasts range from $55.00 to $67.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $60.78 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.5%.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' stock was trading at $57.83 at the beginning of the year. Since then, RBA shares have increased by 7.8% and is now trading at $62.35.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 7,460,000 shares, an increase of 34.4% from the December 31st total of 5,550,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,160,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.4 days. Approximately 6.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 21st 2023.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 21st at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 416-764-8677 with passcode "106719".

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (NYSE:RBA) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 7th. The business services provider reported $0.38 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.30 by $0.08. The business services provider had revenue of $411.50 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $366.23 million. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers had a net margin of 18.49% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 25.52%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 24.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.44 earnings per share.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, January 16th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 10th will be given a dividend of $0.27 per share on Friday, March 3rd. This represents a $1.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.73%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 9th.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE:RBA) pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.74%. 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 39.56%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, RBA will have a dividend payout ratio of 45.96% 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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Riverbridge Partners LLC (3.68%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (1.43%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.41%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.38%), Ceredex Value Advisors LLC (0.38%) and Mondrian Investment Partners LTD (0.36%). Insiders that own company stock include Ann Fandozzi, Christopher Zimmerman, 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 $62.35.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE:RBA) has a market capitalization of $6.92 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 $2.73 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,700 workers across the globe.

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.