Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ:URBN) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, 05/24/23, with the stock price up by 17.59% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $31.35.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $26.66, falling within a range of $29.77 and $32.46. The PE ratio was 18.45 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $29.74, and the low was $17.81. On the whole, URBN has fluctuated by 21.89% over the past month.
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With the market capitalization of Urban Outfitters Inc. currently standing at about $3.04 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for Aug 21, 2023 – Aug 25, 2023. As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.79, which is expected to increase to $0.83 for fiscal year $2.38 and then to about $2.65 by fiscal year 2025. Data indicates that the EPS growth is expected to be 40.00% in 2025, while the next year’s EPS growth is forecast to be 11.30%.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $1.22 billion, with a low estimate of $1.2 billion and a high estimate of $1.25 billion. According to the average forecast, sales growth in current quarter could jump up 3.20%, compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2025, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $4.98 billion, representing an increase of 3.80% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that URBN’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
15 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 8 analyst(s), 4 recommend it as a Buy and 2 called the URBN stock Overweight. In the meantime, 0 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 1 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Overweight.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.95, with the price of URBN currently trading nearly 14.74% and 16.44% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 68.54, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.39% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.51%. Furthermore, Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN)’s beta value is 1.49, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.26. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $31.58 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $20.00 and a high of $38.00. Based on these price targets, the low is 36.2% off current price, whereas the price has to move -21.21% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $31.50 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -0.48% from the current levels.
A comparison of Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. URBN showed an intraday change of 17.59% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 60.44%%. In comparison, The TJX Companies Inc. (TJX) has moved lower at -0.86% on the day and was up 27.38% over the past 12 months. On the other hand, the price of Tilly’s Inc. (TLYS) has risen 0.92% on the day. The stock, however, is off -6.83% from where it was a year ago. Additionally, there is a gain of 2.41% for Nordstrom Inc. (JWN) in last trading while the stock has seen an overall depriciation of -24.71%% over the past year. The PE ratio stands at 18.45 for Urban Outfitters Inc., compared to 23.68 for The TJX Companies Inc., and 23.80 for Tilly’s Inc. Other than that, the overall performance of the S&P 500 during the last trading session shows that it lost -0.73%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Slipped by -0.77%.
Data on historical trading for Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ:URBN) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.89 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.50 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 92.17 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 37.33% of Urban Outfitters Inc.’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 81.90% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 9.4 million shares as on Apr 27, 2023, resulting in a short ratio of 7.94. According to the data, the short interest in Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN) stood at 10.15% of shares outstanding as of Apr 27, 2023; the number of short shares registered in Mar 30, 2023 reached 8.65 million. The stock has risen by 31.45% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the URBN stock heading into the next quarter.
