Barnes & Noble Education Inc (NYSE: BNED) is 9.66% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $6.05 and a high of $14.40 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 BNED stock was last observed hovering at around $11.32 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.31%.
Currently trading at $11.01, the stock is -3.86% and 3.53% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.21 million and changing -2.74% at the moment leaves the stock 5.77% off its SMA200. BNED registered 27.28% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -17.09%.
The stock witnessed a 0.55% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 10.88%, and is -5.33% down 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 3.73% over the week and 2.84% over the month.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) has around 3750 employees, a market worth around $374.93M and $1.57B in sales. Profit margin for the company is -4.47%. Distance from 52-week low is 81.98% and -23.57% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-12.83%).
The shares outstanding are 34.05M, and float is at 8.90M with Short Float at 11.00%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP with over 0.34 million shares valued at $2.18 million. The investor’s holdings represent 2.5187 of the BNED Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 0.12 million shares valued at $0.75 million to account for 0.8632 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 99577.0 shares representing 0.737 and valued at over $0.64 million, while DCF ADVISERS, LLC holds 0.5736 of the shares totaling 77500.0 with a market value of $0.5 million.
Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED) Insider Activity
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 13 ’25, TORO 18 HOLDINGS LLC (Director) acquired 142,898 shares at an average price of $8.60 for $1.23 million. The insider now directly holds 11,208,746 shares of Barnes & Noble Education Inc (BNED).
