Potbelly Corp (NASDAQ:PBPB) price on Friday, March 21, rose 1.64% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $9.32.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $9.17, moving within a range at $8.89 and $9.33. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.507 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 7.09. Turning to its 52-week performance, $13.48 and $6.28 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PBPB moved -26.27% over the past month.
Potbelly Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $278.48 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-05.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that PBPB is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in Hold category.
1 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend PBPB as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
PBPB’s current price about -12.10% and -18.05% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 34.02, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.69% and 5.26% in the 30-day chart. Further, Potbelly Corp (PBPB) has a beta value of 1.40, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.53.
If we refocus on Potbelly Corp (NASDAQ:PBPB), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.33 over the past 10 days and 256.93K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 29.89 million shares.
The 16.64% of Potbelly Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 77.94% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.83 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 3.66. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Potbelly Corp (PBPB) stood at 302.99999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 0.81 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -1.06% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PBPB stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
