Green Plains Inc (NASDAQ: GPRE) is -40.40% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $3.14 and a high of $18.14 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 GPRE stock was last observed hovering at around $5.78 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.13%.
Currently trading at $5.65, the stock is 23.52% and 34.04% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.08 million and changing -2.16% at the moment leaves the stock -31.93% off its SMA200. GPRE registered -62.63% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -47.25%.
The stock witnessed a 17.95% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 7.01%, and is 23.09% 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 9.29% over the week and 5.35% over the month.
Green Plains Inc (GPRE) has around 923 employees, a market worth around $369.51M and $2.45B in sales. Fwd P/E is 90.52. Profit margin for the company is -4.24%. Distance from 52-week low is 79.94% and -68.85% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-8.16%).
with sales reaching $578.18M over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -10.12% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -4.98% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -6.57% in year-over-year returns.
The shares outstanding are 65.39M, and float is at 63.27M with Short Float at 14.68%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 10.07 million shares valued at $159.67 million. The investor’s holdings represent 15.7471 of the GPRE Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is GRANTHAM, MAYO, VAN OTTERLOO & CO. LLC with 6.07 million shares valued at $96.24 million to account for 9.4913 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 4.68 million shares representing 7.3257 and valued at over $74.28 million, while ANCORA ADVISORS, LLC holds 7.0392 of the shares totaling 4.5 million with a market value of $71.38 million.
Green Plains Inc (GPRE) Insider Activity
Still, SEC filings show that on Apr 16 ’25, Becker Todd A (Former Officer) Proposed Sale 257,354 shares at an average price of $3.51 for $0.9 million. The insider now directly holds shares of Green Plains Inc (GPRE).
