Bloomin' Brands (BLMN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

10 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bloomin' Brands in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" BLMN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BLMN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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10 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Bloomin' Brands' stock. Their BLMN share price targets range from $25.00 to $32.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $27.90 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.1% from the stock's current price.
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Bloomin' Brands' stock was trading at $28.15 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, BLMN stock has decreased by 4.8% and is now trading at $26.79.
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Bloomin' Brands saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,960,000 shares, an increase of 9.3% from the March 15th total of 4,540,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 5.8% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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Bloomin' Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLMN) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February, 23rd. The restaurant operator reported $0.75 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.06. The restaurant operator earned $1.19 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.20 billion. Bloomin' Brands had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 73.67% and a net margin of 5.30%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 9.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.68 earnings per share.

Bloomin' Brands declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 13th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 6th will be given a dividend of $0.24 per share on Wednesday, March 20th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.58%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 5th.
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Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.62%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 37.94%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BLMN will have a dividend payout ratio of 34.41% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) stock in their portfolio include AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (EATZ), InfraCap Equity Income Fund ETF (ICAP), Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (DGRS), First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (FYC), WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund (EES), Avantis US Small Cap Equity ETF (AVSC) and SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap ETF (SLY).

Bloomin' Brands updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.51-2.66 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.61.

55 employees have rated Bloomin' Brands Chief Executive Officer David Deno on Glassdoor.com. David Deno has an approval rating of 48% among the company's employees. This puts David Deno in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 71.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Bloomin' Brands to a friend.

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Bloomin' Brands' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Annex Advisory Services LLC (0.34%) and Rye Brook Capital LLC (0.28%). Insiders that own company stock include David J Deno, Elizabeth A Smith, Gregg Scarlett and Kelly Lefferts.
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