BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (NYSE: BJ) is 23.66% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $71.81 and a high of $118.40 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 BJ stock was last observed hovering at around $109.48 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 1.01%.
Currently trading at $110.49, the stock is 2.10% and 6.30% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.08 million and changing 0.92% at the moment leaves the stock 20.32% off its SMA200. BJ registered 42.84% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 35.60%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $103.6478 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $91.71655.
The stock witnessed a 5.04% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 17.83%, and is 0.44% 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 2.08% over the week and 3.47% over the month.
BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (BJ) has around 33000 employees, a market worth around $14.55B and $20.50B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 27.62 and Fwd P/E is 23.61. Profit margin for the company is 2.61%. Distance from 52-week low is 53.86% and -6.68% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (12.36%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 4.83% this year
729.0 institutions hold shares in BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (BJ), with institutional investors hold 107.80% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 131.64M, and float is at 130.53M with Short Float at 4.95%. Institutions hold 106.77% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is FMR LLC with over 13.39 million shares valued at $1.18 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 10.1114 of the BJ Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 13.19 million shares valued at $1.16 billion to account for 9.9588 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 11.43 million shares representing 8.6321 and valued at over $1.0 billion, while VICTORY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC holds 4.6995 of the shares totaling 6.22 million with a market value of $546.54 million.
BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (BJ) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Werner William C., the company’s EVP, Strategy & Development. SEC filings show that Werner William C. sold 20,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 19 ’25 at a price of $110.41 per share for a total of $2.21 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 31308.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 14 ’25, Steele Robert Allan (Director) disposed off 11,813 shares at an average price of $107.59 for $1.27 million. The insider now directly holds 24,351 shares of BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (BJ).
