Sunopta, Inc (NASDAQ: STKL) is 16.54% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $3.64 and a high of $8.11 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 STKL stock was last observed hovering at around $6.14 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.01%.
Currently trading at $6.13, the stock is 3.78% and 8.51% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.23 million and changing -0.16% at the moment leaves the stock -3.40% off its SMA200. STKL registered -20.39% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -19.87%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $5.6492 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $6.34595.
The stock witnessed a 2.34% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 30.15%, and is 3.20% 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 3.70% over the week and 3.89% over the month.
Sunopta, Inc (STKL) has around 1248 employees, a market worth around $720.53M and $742.51M in sales. Fwd P/E is 20.11. Profit margin for the company is -2.05%. Distance from 52-week low is 68.18% and -24.41% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-3.05%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 78.73% this year
280.0 institutions hold shares in Sunopta, Inc (STKL), with institutional investors hold 92.61% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 117.24M, and float is at 112.55M with Short Float at 4.39%. Institutions hold 91.03% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is OAKTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP with over 20.73 million shares valued at $111.93 million. The investor’s holdings represent 17.7693 of the STKL Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 7.6 million shares valued at $41.07 million to account for 6.52 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are COOPERMAN LEON G which holds 5.28 million shares representing 4.5265 and valued at over $28.51 million, while BARROW HANLEY MEWHINNEY & STRAUSS LLC holds 4.3417 of the shares totaling 5.06 million with a market value of $27.35 million.
Sunopta, Inc (STKL) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by Kocher Brian W, the company’s CEO. SEC filings show that Kocher Brian W bought 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 10 ’25 at a price of $5.72 per share for a total of $57194.0. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 10000.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 13 ’25, Clark Bryan P (SVP R&D and QA) disposed off 8,500 shares at an average price of $5.32 for $45212.0. The insider now directly holds 28,150 shares of Sunopta, Inc (STKL).
