Farmer Bros. Co (FARM) saw an uptrend of 21.32% in the recent trading with $1.65 being its most recent. The current price level -49.82% lower than the highest price of $3.29 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 23.60% higher than the lowest price of $1.34 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on FARM appeared in (Just Drinks) under the title “Farmer Brothers Coffee to weigh strategic options” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 1 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.00 for the stock.
Farmer Bros. Co Earnings – What Happened With FARM
Coming around sales and income figures on FARM Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Farmer Bros. Co – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 21.51 million. FARM does have institutional investors; and they hold 41.46% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, 22NW, LP was the top most holder in Farmer Bros. Co (NASDAQ:FARM) with an ownership of 1.96 million shares of the company or 9.3686 of the stake worth $5.24 million. The filing also reveals JCP INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 4.7564 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $2.66 million for having 0.99 million shares in hand.
PENN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 4.4939 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 55.0 institutions which have possession in FARM’s shares.
Key Metrics forFARM
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Farmer Bros. Co has a debt to equity ratio of 1.69.
Technical Analysis of Farmer Bros. Co (NASDAQ:FARM) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Farmer Bros. Co (FARM), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 261,590 shares and 50% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 175,816 shares. And to end, FARM’s 100-day average volume is 178,267 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
