Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Dunkin Brands Group, Inc.'s Stock Update


The restaurant holding company's shares have performed well in the past seven days however same cannot be said for the past one month.

Earnings per share of Dunkin Brand Group as predicted by eight stock experts are $0.58 for the last quarter of the current fiscal year that will end in 2016. As per the estimations and prediction, the analysts have given higher earnings per share estimate of $0.61 and a low estimate of $0.55. If this goes forth, then there will be a change of approximately 17.24% in the EPS as compared to the same quarter of the previous fiscal year.
For the previous quarter the earnings per share of Dunkin Group were reported to be 0.52 and were announced on October 22, 2015. Surprisingly, the earnings that were predicted by twelve analysts in a survey were estimated to be $0.51 which was just a 0.1 difference away from the prediction of the experts.
On the other hand the price target for the next 52 weeks according to financial analysts is at $50.47 on the shares of the company. The restaurants holding company appreciated by 1.35% in the last seven days but comparatively lost about 4.36% in a four weeks’ time. The drop in the past three months has been of 24.56% which negatively affects the stock of the company. In about a year, Dunkin’s shares have declined by 9.07%.  
Highs and lows have been witnessed in the shares of the company throughout the year. The former being observed on July 14, 2015 while the latter being seen on October 22, 2015. The 52-week high was reported of $56.79 and a 52-week low was registered of $39.29.
The trading session that took place on Friday, the shares of the restaurant holding company closed down at $41.41 or 0.6%. At the time of commencement the shares opened at a share price of $41.7 and throughout the day they were volatile and kept fluctuating between $41.7 and $41.2202. The highest share price that the stock of Dunkin Group hit was $41.7 and the lowest share price the stock hit was $41.2202. By the end of the trade, the shares were soaring at 1,125,548 shares and the last trade was called off at $41.41. In this point in time, the market capital of the restaurant holding giant is 3.94 billion. The price per earnings is at 25.01 and the current EPS of the fast food chain is at 1.67. Lastly the outstanding shares of the company were estimated to be 95,240,864 shares.
The shares of Dunkin Brands have clearly outperformed the S&P 500 in the last seven days by at least 1.14% and by approximately 10.25% underperformed the index in a month’s time. Insider trading was also seen in the company which was revealed to the SEC by Dunkin. The chief financial officer unloaded as many as 7,465 shares of the company at a share price $53.12. This transaction took place by the CFO on August 7, 2015 which was collectively worth $396,541 and was revealed to the SEC on a Form 4 filing.
Furthermore, the company’s Insiders own about 2.4% of Dunkin’s stock while 97.02% is owned by the Institutional Owners.

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