Buckle, Inc (NYSE:BKE) price on Friday, April 11, fall -1.33% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $34.88.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $35.35, moving within a range at $33.46 and $35.205. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.843 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 8.99. Turning to its 52-week performance, $51.62 and $33.12 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BKE moved -0.77% over the past month.
Buckle, Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.78 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-13. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.40, with its dividend yield at 4.01%. 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 264.28M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 263.96M and 264.6M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 0.68% 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 1.21B, representing a -0.96% 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 BKE 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 50% Sell 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, 0 recommend BKE 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 Sell which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
BKE’s current price about -7.00% and -12.17% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 39.06, while 7-day volatility ratio is 9.13% and 5.27% in the 30-day chart. Further, Buckle, Inc (BKE) has a beta value of 0.94, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.08. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $41, forecast between a low of $41 and high of $41. Looking at the price targets, the low is -17.55% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -17.55%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -17.55% jump to $41 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Buckle, Inc (NYSE:BKE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.77 over the past 10 days and 613.80K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 50.77 million shares.
The 39.42% of Buckle, Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 59.91% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.95 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 5.54. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Buckle, Inc (BKE) stood at 962.9999999999999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.81 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -27.86% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BKE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
