Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc (NYSE: PBH) is 11.86% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $60.00 and a high of $86.36 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The PBH stock was last observed hovering at around $76.10 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 11.25%.
Currently trading at $87.35, the stock is 12.71% and 9.57% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.77 million and changing 14.78% at the moment leaves the stock 19.77% off its SMA200. PBH registered 41.25% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 28.21%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $79.6578 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $72.84095.
The stock witnessed a 17.22% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 18.38%, and is 11.39% up 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 4.01% over the week and 2.44% over the month.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc (PBH) has around 570 employees, a market worth around $4.32B and $1.11B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 21.28 and Fwd P/E is 18.25. Profit margin for the company is 18.54%. Distance from 52-week low is 45.58% and 1.15% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.38%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 6.28% this year
435.0 institutions hold shares in Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc (PBH), with institutional investors hold 107.57% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 49.44M, and float is at 48.81M with Short Float at 4.78%. Institutions hold 106.17% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 8.28 million shares valued at $569.77 million. The investor’s holdings represent 16.632 of the PBH Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 5.7 million shares valued at $392.35 million to account for 11.4529 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP which holds 3.01 million shares representing 6.044 and valued at over $207.06 million, while MACQUARIE GROUP LTD holds 5.7014 of the shares totaling 2.84 million with a market value of $195.32 million.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc (PBH) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Lombardi Ronald M., the company’s Chief Executive Officer. SEC filings show that Lombardi Ronald M. sold 10,875 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 19 ’24 at a price of $82.60 per share for a total of $0.9 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.32 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 18 ’24, Lombardi Ronald M. (Chief Executive Officer) disposed off 82,237 shares at an average price of $82.56 for $6.79 million. The insider now directly holds 320,952 shares of Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc (PBH).
