Macy’s Inc (NYSE:M) price on current trading day, fall -3.24% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $11.52.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $11.90, moving within a range at $11.483 and $11.665. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.762 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 5.82. Turning to its 52-week performance, $20.47 and $9.76 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, M moved -4.83% over the past month.
Macy’s Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $3.13 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-27. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.71, with its dividend yield at 6.18%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
13 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, 6 recommend M 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.
M’s current price about -3.22% and -0.87% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 44.08, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.45% and 2.45% in the 30-day chart. Further, Macy’s Inc (M) has a beta value of 1.76, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.44. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $12, forecast between a low of $8 and high of $15. Looking at the price targets, the low is 30.56% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -30.21%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -4.17% jump to $12 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Macy’s Inc (NYSE:M), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 6.84 over the past 10 days and 7.10 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 271.54 million shares.
The 0.84% of Macy’s Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 87.79% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 22.7 million on 2025-05-30, giving us a short ratio of 3.26. The data shows that as of 2025-05-30 short interest in Macy’s Inc (M) stood at 930.0000000000001 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 20.36 million registered in 2025-04-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -31.98% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the M stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
