Performance Food Group Company (NYSE:PFGC) shares, rose in value on Friday, December 13, with the stock price up by 0.51% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $88.65.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $88.20, falling within a range of $87.56 and $88.92. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.446 whereas the PE ratio was 32.68 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $92.44, and the low was $61.60. On the whole, PFGC has fluctuated by 3.93% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Performance Food Group Company currently standing at about $13.81 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in January.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 62.93B, with a low estimate of 15.42B and a high estimate of 15.83B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 15.54B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that PFGC’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.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.96, with the price of PFGC currently trading nearly 1.24% and 4.87% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 58.31, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.58% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.14%. Furthermore, Performance Food Group Company (PFGC)’s beta value is 1.43, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.90.
A comparison of Performance Food Group Company (PFGC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. PFGC showed an intraday change of 0.51% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 33.49%%.
Data on historical trading for Performance Food Group Company (NYSE:PFGC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.17 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 982.90K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 154.50 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 2.55% of Performance Food Group Company’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 96.51% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.4 million shares as on 2024-11-29, resulting in a short ratio of 2.22. According to the data, the short interest in Performance Food Group Company (PFGC) stood at 221.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-11-29; the number of short shares registered in 2024-10-31 reached 2.62 million. The stock has risen by 28.20% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the PFGC stock heading into the next quarter.