Brunswick Corp. (NYSE: BC) is -17.35% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $66.47 and a high of $99.68 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 BC stock was last observed hovering at around $77.01 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 2.95%.
Currently trading at $79.96, the stock is -2.47% and -0.25% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.08 million and changing 3.83% at the moment leaves the stock -2.47% off its SMA200. BC registered 15.07% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of -0.05%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $80.1644 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $81.98685.
The stock witnessed a -1.22% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -0.03%, and is -5.00% 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 3.22% over the week and 2.47% over the month.
Brunswick Corp. (BC) has around 17300 employees, a market worth around $5.29B and $5.76B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 16.12 and Fwd P/E is 13.49. Profit margin for the company is 5.92%. Distance from 52-week low is 20.29% and -19.78% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.55%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -43.93% this year
536.0 institutions hold shares in Brunswick Corp. (BC), with institutional investors hold 106.10% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 68.23M, and float is at 65.25M with Short Float at 7.30%. Institutions hold 104.77% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 7.16 million shares valued at $521.34 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.4894 of the BC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 5.84 million shares valued at $424.88 million to account for 8.5485 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 5.75 million shares representing 8.4247 and valued at over $418.72 million, while MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ holds 3.8623 of the shares totaling 2.64 million with a market value of $191.96 million.
Brunswick Corp. (BC) Insider Activity
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 01 ’24, NANCY E COOPER (Director) Proposed Sale 358 shares at an average price of $81.45 for $29159.0. The insider now directly holds shares of Brunswick Corp. (BC).
