BJ’s Restaurant Inc (NASDAQ: BJRI) is 6.70% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $27.61 and a high of $41.72 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 BJRI stock was last observed hovering at around $37.26 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.23%.
Currently trading at $37.49, the stock is 11.09% and 9.61% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.12 million and changing 0.62% at the moment leaves the stock 9.84% off its SMA200. BJRI registered 8.10% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of 10.30%.
The stock witnessed a 23.20% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 1.96%, and is 12.62% 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 4.66% over the week and 4.52% over the month.
BJ’s Restaurant Inc (BJRI) has around 21000 employees, a market worth around $829.13M and $1.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 39.93 and Fwd P/E is 16.48. Profit margin for the company is 1.64%. Distance from 52-week low is 35.78% and -10.14% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.67%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 30.06% this year
The shares outstanding are 22.44M, and float is at 20.12M with Short Float at 7.33%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 3.5 million shares valued at $121.53 million. The investor’s holdings represent 15.0252 of the BJRI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 2.53 million shares valued at $87.67 million to account for 10.8397 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. which holds 2.39 million shares representing 10.2546 and valued at over $82.94 million, while FUND 1 INVESTMENTS, LLC holds 10.0206 of the shares totaling 2.34 million with a market value of $81.05 million.
BJ’s Restaurant Inc (BJRI) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Fund 1 Investments, LLC, the company’s 10% Owner. SEC filings show that Fund 1 Investments, LLC sold 35,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Apr 28 ’25 at a price of $33.25 per share for a total of $1.18 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 2.23 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 15 ’24, Krakower Brian S (Chief Information Officer) disposed off 2,313 shares at an average price of $35.60 for $82343.0. The insider now directly holds 5,339 shares of BJ’s Restaurant Inc (BJRI).
