NYSE:SEAS - SeaWorld Entertainment Stock Price, Forecast & News

SeaWorld Entertainment trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SEAS."

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc (NYSE:SEAS) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The company reported $1.24 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.39 by $0.15. The business earned $473.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $488.84 million. SeaWorld Entertainment had a net margin of 7.43% and a return on equity of 52.78%. The company's revenue was down 2.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.10 EPS. View SeaWorld Entertainment's Earnings History.

SeaWorld Entertainment is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for SeaWorld Entertainment.

9 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for SeaWorld Entertainment's shares. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $42.00. On average, they expect SeaWorld Entertainment's stock price to reach $32.24 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for SeaWorld Entertainment.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for SeaWorld Entertainment in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for SeaWorld Entertainment.

News coverage about SEAS stock has trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. SeaWorld Entertainment earned a news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned 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 effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for SeaWorld Entertainment.

SeaWorld Entertainment saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 7,740,000 shares, a decline of 10.7% from the December 31st total of 8,670,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,110,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.0 days. Approximately 10.0% of the company's shares are short sold. View SeaWorld Entertainment's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other SeaWorld Entertainment investors own include Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Bank of America (BAC), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Metlife (MET), Comcast (CMCSA), Mattel (MAT), Twitter (TWTR), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Netflix (NFLX) and Six Flags Entertainment (SIX).

SeaWorld Entertainment's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Deroy & Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc. (0.91%), Convergence Investment Partners LLC (0.04%), Advisor Partners LLC (0.03%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.03%), Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL (0.03%) and Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.03%). Company insiders that own SeaWorld Entertainment stock include Alliance Group Ltd Pacific, Christopher Dold, George Anthony Taylor, Hill Path Capital Partners Co-, Jack Roddy, John T Reilly, Marc Swanson and Thomas E Moloney. View Institutional Ownership Trends for SeaWorld Entertainment.

SEAS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Convergence Investment Partners LLC, Eqis Capital Management Inc., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL. Company insiders that have sold SeaWorld Entertainment company stock in the last year include Alliance Group Ltd Pacific, George Anthony Taylor and Marc Swanson. View Insider Buying and Selling for SeaWorld Entertainment.

SEAS stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Deroy & Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc., Advisor Partners LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Sciencast Management LP, New York State Teachers Retirement System and Advisors Preferred LLC. Company insiders that have bought SeaWorld Entertainment stock in the last two years include Hill Path Capital Partners Co- and Thomas E Moloney. View Insider Buying and Selling for SeaWorld Entertainment.

Shares of SEAS 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 SEAS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $34.71.

SeaWorld Entertainment has a market capitalization of $2.73 billion and generates $1.37 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $44.79 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.02 on an earnings per share basis. SeaWorld Entertainment employs 16,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About SeaWorld Entertainment.

The official website for SeaWorld Entertainment is http://www.seaworldentertainment.com/.

SeaWorld Entertainment's mailing address is 9205 SOUTH PARK CENTER LOOP SUITE 400, ORLANDO FL, 32819. The company can be reached via phone at 407-226-5011 or via email at [email protected]