The trading price of Helen of Troy Ltd (NASDAQ:HELE) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $74.86, 20.03% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $72.15 and $77.94. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 11.72, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.857. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $127.83 and a 52-week low of $48.05. Over the past month, the stock has gained 37.48% in value.
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Helen of Troy Ltd, whose market valuation is $1.71 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2024-Oct-09. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 1.05 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 7.1 for current year and 7.8 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 458.24M for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 454.41M and highs of 461.95M. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 1.9B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest HELE has a Hold on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 50% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned HELE a recommendation rating is 2. Out of them, 1 rate it a Hold, while 1 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Helen of Troy Ltd (HELE) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 1.30, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that HELE’s price is currently 23.04% off the SMA20 and 32.78% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 81.76, and weekly volatility stands at 2.86%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 3.33%. Helen of Troy Ltd (NASDAQ:HELE)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.86, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 3.11. With analysts defining $151-$151 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $151 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -101.71% off the estimated low and -101.71% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if HELE’s share price rises to $151, which is the median consensus price. At that level, HELE’s share price would be -101.71% below current price.
To see how Helen of Troy Ltd stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: HELE stock’s performance was 20.03% at last check in today’s session, and -30.70% in the past year. Helen of Troy Ltd has a P/E ratio of 11.72.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Helen of Troy Ltd (NASDAQ:HELE) indicates that the 3-month average is 763.79K. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 0.51.
Currently, records show that 23.75 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 1.24% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 108.43%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-09-13, stood at 2.24 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 4.1 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 1581.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in September were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 2.61 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -38.03% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
