PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF) price on current trading day, rose 14.27% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $16.42.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $14.37, moving within a range at $13.82 and $16.73. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.145. Turning to its 52-week performance, $61.15 and $13.61 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PBF moved -18.47% over the past month.
PBF Energy Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.90 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-12. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.05, with its dividend yield at 6.39%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 6.62B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 5.03B and 9.5B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -23.41% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 29.45B, representing a -11.07% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that PBF is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
25 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 6 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 18 recommend PBF as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 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.
PBF’s current price about -13.69% and -26.34% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 35.87, while 7-day volatility ratio is 14.55% and 7.36% in the 30-day chart. Further, PBF Energy Inc (PBF) has a beta value of 0.90, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.50. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $23.5, forecast between a low of $22 and high of $25. Looking at the price targets, the low is -33.98% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -52.25%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -43.12% jump to $23.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.62 over the past 10 days and 2.93 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 115.31 million shares.
The 28.67% of PBF Energy Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 76.27% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 15.49 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 5.07. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in PBF Energy Inc (PBF) stood at 2287.0001 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 13.9 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -38.15% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PBF stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
