Calavo Growers (CVGW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Calavo Growers in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CVGW shares.
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2 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Calavo Growers' stock. Their CVGW share price targets range from $32.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $38.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 35.5% from the stock's current price.
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Calavo Growers' stock was trading at $29.41 at the start of the year. Since then, CVGW shares have decreased by 3.4% and is now trading at $28.41.
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Calavo Growers saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 967,100 shares, a drop of 7.9% from the March 15th total of 1,050,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 183,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.3 days. Currently, 5.8% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, June 4th 2024.
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Calavo Growers, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVGW) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March, 11th. The company reported ($0.01) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.17 by $0.18. The company earned $127.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $254.25 million. Calavo Growers had a negative net margin of 1.32% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 0.49%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 3.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted ($0.08) earnings per share.

Calavo Growers declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 11th. Investors of record on Monday, April 1st will be given a dividend of $0.10 per share on Monday, April 29th. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 28th.
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Calavo Growers (NASDAQ:CVGW) pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.54%.
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Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF holds 35,975 shares of CVGW stock, representing 1.16% of its portfolio.

7 employees have rated Calavo Growers Chief Executive Officer Lee Cole on Glassdoor.com. Lee Cole has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Lee Cole in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Calavo Growers' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Hodges Capital Management Inc. (0.51%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.19%) and Kingswood Wealth Advisors LLC (0.09%). Insiders that own company stock include James D Helin, Lecil E Cole, Michael A Browne and Steve Hollister.
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