Macerich Co (NYSE:MAC) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 0.06% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $16.64.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $16.63, moving within a range at $16.47 and $16.76. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.135. Turning to its 52-week performance, $22.27 and $12.48 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MAC moved 5.18% over the past month.
Macerich Co’s market cap currently stands at around $4.38 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-12. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.34, with its dividend yield at 2.04%. 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 244.02M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 229.25M and 255.3M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 13.22% 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 1.01B, representing a 9.57% jump 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 MAC is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
4 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, 3 recommend MAC 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.
MAC’s current price about 2.91% and 6.04% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 58.72, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.67% and 2.91% in the 30-day chart. Further, Macerich Co (MAC) has a beta value of 2.20. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $17.5, forecast between a low of $16 and high of $19. Looking at the price targets, the low is 3.85% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -14.18%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -5.17% jump to $17.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Macerich Co (NYSE:MAC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.72 over the past 10 days and 2.04 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 253.03 million shares.
The 0.75% of Macerich Co’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 100.64% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 14.1 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 8.0. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Macerich Co (MAC) stood at 818.9999 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 14.54 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 15.88% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MAC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
