First Watch Restaurant Group Inc (NASDAQ: FWRG) is 4.19% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $12.90 and a high of $22.71 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 FWRG stock was last observed hovering at around $17.56 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.1%.
Currently trading at $17.66, the stock is 11.24% and 7.05% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.37 million and changing 0.57% at the moment leaves the stock -0.50% off its SMA200. FWRG registered -5.10% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -4.70%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $16.4968 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $17.748026.
The stock witnessed a 15.05% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -4.13%, and is 7.29% 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 5.32% over the week and 4.94% over the month.
First Watch Restaurant Group Inc (FWRG) has around 15000 employees, a market worth around $1.08B and $1.06B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 101.38 and Fwd P/E is 50.10. Profit margin for the company is 1.03%. Distance from 52-week low is 36.90% and -22.24% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.80%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -47.78% this year
228.0 institutions hold shares in First Watch Restaurant Group Inc (FWRG), with institutional investors hold 114.78% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 60.97M, and float is at 44.27M with Short Float at 12.34%. Institutions hold 112.15% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is ADVENT INTERNATIONAL CORP/MA with over 27.19 million shares valued at $477.45 million. The investor’s holdings represent 45.0276 of the FWRG Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is GILDER GAGNON HOWE & CO LLC with 3.07 million shares valued at $53.87 million to account for 5.0807 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 2.13 million shares representing 3.5222 and valued at over $37.35 million, while FOXHAVEN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LP holds 3.3452 of the shares totaling 2.02 million with a market value of $35.47 million.
First Watch Restaurant Group Inc (FWRG) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by ADVENT INTERNATIONAL, L.P., the company’s 10% Owner. SEC filings show that ADVENT INTERNATIONAL, L.P. sold 4,500,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 03 ’25 at a price of $14.70 per share for a total of $66.15 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 14.69 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 12 ’25, Jemley Charles (Director) acquired 15,000 shares at an average price of $16.50 for $0.25 million. The insider now directly holds 23,134 shares of First Watch Restaurant Group Inc (FWRG).
