Helen of Troy Ltd (NASDAQ:HELE) price on Friday, April 11, fall -2.59% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $34.28.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $35.19, moving within a range at $33.16 and $35.6469. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.887 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 6.91. Turning to its 52-week performance, $110.75 and $34.41 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HELE moved -32.45% over the past month.
Helen of Troy Ltd’s market cap currently stands at around $783.49 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jan-07.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 482.24M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 477.82M and 489.7M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -1.42% 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 1.9B, representing a -5.04% 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 HELE 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.
2 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend HELE 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.
HELE’s current price about -28.81% and -35.44% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 24.84, while 7-day volatility ratio is 13.50% and 6.54% in the 30-day chart. Further, Helen of Troy Ltd (HELE) has a beta value of 0.99, and an average true range (ATR) of 3.29. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $71, forecast between a low of $71 and high of $71. Looking at the price targets, the low is -107.12% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -107.12%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -107.12% jump to $71 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Helen of Troy Ltd (NASDAQ:HELE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.7 over the past 10 days and 468.76K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 22.85 million shares.
The 1.56% of Helen of Troy Ltd’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 105.60% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.47 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 5.39. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Helen of Troy Ltd (HELE) stood at 1736.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.42 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -42.70% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HELE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
