Vera Bradley Inc (NASDAQ: VRA) is -35.71% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $4.38 and a high of $8.35 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The VRA stock was last observed hovering at around $4.75 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.2%.
Currently trading at $4.95, the stock is -12.71% and -18.47% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.73 million and changing 4.21% at the moment leaves the stock -28.37% off its SMA200. VRA registered -26.34% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -19.64%.
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The stock witnessed a -19.38% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -22.90%, and is -6.78% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 6.12% over the week and 4.52% over the month.
Vera Bradley Inc (VRA) has around 2135 employees, a market worth around $145.98M and $439.68M in sales. Current P/E ratio is 174.91 and Fwd P/E is 11.65. Profit margin for the company is 0.19%. Distance from 52-week low is 13.01% and -40.72% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.28%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -81.82% this year
145.0 institutions hold shares in Vera Bradley Inc (VRA), with institutional investors hold 93.00% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 30.81M, and float is at 21.64M with Short Float at 15.87%. Institutions hold 66.29% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is FUND 1 INVESTMENTS, LLC with over 2.88 million shares valued at $18.0 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.3798 of the VRA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 2.05 million shares valued at $12.82 million to account for 6.6784 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP which holds 1.47 million shares representing 4.8101 and valued at over $9.23 million, while VANGUARD GROUP INC holds 4.4016 of the shares totaling 1.35 million with a market value of $8.45 million.
Vera Bradley Inc (VRA) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Kelley Mary Lou, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Kelley Mary Lou sold 33,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 08 ’23 at a price of $7.51 per share for a total of $0.25 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 49135.0 shares.
