US Foods Holding Corp (NYSE: USFD) is -1.63% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $44.81 and a high of $72.84 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 USFD stock was last observed hovering at around $67.35 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.99%.
Currently trading at $66.36, the stock is -2.19% and -1.81% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.64 million and changing -1.47% at the moment leaves the stock 13.67% off its SMA200. USFD registered 42.83% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 26.79%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $67.4936 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $58.3184.
The stock witnessed a -5.16% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 9.41%, and is -2.38% 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 2.23% over the week and 1.84% over the month.
US Foods Holding Corp (USFD) has around 30000 employees, a market worth around $15.46B and $37.32B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 28.51 and Fwd P/E is 17.19. Profit margin for the company is 1.54%. Distance from 52-week low is 48.08% and -8.90% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (6.20%).
with sales reaching $9.49B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 18.62% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 6.41% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 6.19% in year-over-year returns.
US Foods Holding Corp (USFD) Top Institutional Holders
695.0 institutions hold shares in US Foods Holding Corp (USFD), with institutional investors hold 100.25% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 235.40M, and float is at 231.31M with Short Float at 1.34%. Institutions hold 99.87% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 23.96 million shares valued at $1.27 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.7792% of the USFD Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is FMR LLC with 23.11 million shares valued at $1.22 billion to account for 9.4319 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 19.61 million shares representing 8.0043% and valued at over $1.04 billion, while BOSTON PARTNERS holds 6.1914 of the shares totaling 15.17 million with a market value of $803.39 million.
US Foods Holding Corp (USFD) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Locascio Dirk J., the company’s EVP, Chief Financial Officer. SEC filings show that Locascio Dirk J. sold 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Sep 12 ’24 at a price of $57.95 per share for a total of $0.58 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 88563.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 07 ’24, Rickard David A (EVP Strategy Revenue Mgmt) disposed off 8,365 shares at an average price of $53.99 for $0.45 million. The insider now directly holds 160,196 shares of US Foods Holding Corp (USFD).
