Buckle (BKE) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Buckle in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "sell" BKE shares.
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1 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Buckle's shares. Their BKE share price targets range from $34.00 to $34.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $34.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.4%.
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Buckle's stock was trading at $47.52 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BKE shares have decreased by 23.6% and is now trading at $36.31.
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Buckle saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,420,000 shares, an increase of 26.7% from the March 15th total of 2,700,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 475,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 7.2 days. Approximately 11.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, May 24th 2024.
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The Buckle, Inc. (NYSE:BKE) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, March, 15th. The company reported $1.59 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.44 by $0.15. The business had revenue of $382.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $383.63 million. Buckle had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 50.88% and a net margin of 17.44%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.76 earnings per share.

Buckle declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, March 26th. Investors of record on Friday, April 12th will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, April 26th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.86%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 11th.
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Buckle (NYSE:BKE) pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.83%. The dividend payout ratio is 31.75%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Buckle (NYSE:BKE) stock in their portfolio include ProShares Online Retail ETF (ONLN), ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (CLIX), The Acquirers Fund (ZIG), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT), Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares (RETL), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (CAFG), Hartford Multifactor Small Cap ETF (ROSC) and Royce Quant Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (SQLV).

Buckle updated its fourth quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $382.4 million-$382.4 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $382.4 million.

Buckle same-store sales increased by 1.8% in the month of March. Buckle shares rose by 0% in the first full-day of trading following the news.

639 employees have rated Buckle Chief Executive Officer Dennis H. Nelson on Glassdoor.com. Dennis H. Nelson has an approval rating of 96% among the company's employees. This puts Dennis H. Nelson in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Buckle investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Starbucks (SBUX), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), CVS Health (CVS), eBay (EBAY), Ford Motor (F), General Electric (GE), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Intel (INTC) and Macy's (M).

Buckle's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include RK Asset Management LLC (0.46%) and Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Anna Fraser, Bill L Fairfield, Brett P Milkie, Dennis H Nelson, Dennis H Nelson, Diane L Applegate, Kari G Smith, Kelli D Molczyk and Michelle Hoffman.
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