Is Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ: DNUT) A Stock A New Investor Should Consider Now?

Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 2.68% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $5.57.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $5.42, falling within a range of $5.3924 and $5.585. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.401 whereas the PE ratio is 361.36 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $17.53, and the low was $5.30. On the whole, DNUT has fluctuated by -6.71% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Krispy Kreme Inc currently standing at about $947.72 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-24. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.14, with its dividend yield at 2.52%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.63B, with a low estimate of 377M and a high estimate of 392M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 385.11M.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that DNUT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 6.40, with the price of DNUT currently trading nearly -2.20% and -25.37% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 35.63, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.64% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.15%. Furthermore, Krispy Kreme Inc (DNUT)’s beta value is 1.42, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.34.

A comparison of Krispy Kreme Inc (DNUT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. DNUT showed an intraday change of 2.68% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -55.30%%.

Data on historical trading for Krispy Kreme Inc (NASDAQ:DNUT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.5 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 2.85 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 170.06 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 51.07% of Krispy Kreme Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 57.45% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 22.87 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 4.7. According to the data, the short interest in Krispy Kreme Inc (DNUT) stood at 2601.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 20.14 million. The stock has fallen by -43.96% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the DNUT stock heading into the next quarter.

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