Post Holdings Inc (NYSE: POST) is -7.51% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $99.62 and a high of $125.84 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 POST stock was last observed hovering at around $104.81 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 1.05%.
Currently trading at $105.86, the stock is -0.85% and -5.89% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.84 million and changing 1.00% at the moment leaves the stock -4.07% off its SMA200. POST registered 2.05% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -5.29%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $112.6306 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $110.3404.
The stock witnessed a -3.27% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -2.97%, and is -1.75% 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 1.68% over the week and 1.77% over the month.
Post Holdings Inc (POST) has around 11480 employees, a market worth around $6.16B and $7.92B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 19.33 and Fwd P/E is 14.88. Profit margin for the company is 4.63%. Distance from 52-week low is 6.26% and -15.88% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.30%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 0.07% this year
517.0 institutions hold shares in Post Holdings Inc (POST), with institutional investors hold 119.28% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 58.40M, and float is at 51.65M with Short Float at 3.92%. Institutions hold 96.14% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 5.35 million shares valued at $556.74 million. The investor’s holdings represent 8.7911 of the POST Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is ROUTE ONE INVESTMENT COMPANY, L.P. with 5.17 million shares valued at $538.95 million to account for 8.5103 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 4.45 million shares representing 7.3227 and valued at over $463.74 million, while CLARKSTON CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC holds 5.6849 of the shares totaling 3.46 million with a market value of $360.02 million.
Post Holdings Inc (POST) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by HARPER BRADLY A, the company’s SVP, CHIEF ACCTING OFFICER. SEC filings show that HARPER BRADLY A sold 1,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 05 ’24 at a price of $120.09 per share for a total of $0.12 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 11220.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 02 ’24, CATOGGIO NICOLAS (PRES & CEO, PCB) disposed off 6,000 shares at an average price of $121.14 for $0.73 million. The insider now directly holds 70,501 shares of Post Holdings Inc (POST).
