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

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bloomin' Brands in the last twelve months. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Bloomin' Brands' stock. Their BLMN share price targets range from $25.00 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $27.90 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.2% from the stock's current price.
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Bloomin' Brands' stock was trading at $28.15 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BLMN stock has decreased by 4.0% and is now trading at $27.03.
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Bloomin' Brands saw a increase in short interest during 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 daily trading volume, of 1,300,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days. Approximately 5.8% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 7th 2024.
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Bloomin' Brands will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, May 7th at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Bloomin' Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLMN) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February, 23rd. The restaurant operator reported $0.75 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.06. The restaurant operator earned $1.19 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.20 billion. Bloomin' Brands had a net margin of 5.30% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 73.67%. The company's revenue was up 9.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.68 EPS.

Bloomin' Brands announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 13th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, March 6th will be paid 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 3.55%. 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 3.55%. 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), LeaderShares Activist Leaders ETF (ACTV), 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) and Avantis U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF (AVSC).

Bloomin' Brands updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 23rd. The company provided EPS 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Annex Advisory Services LLC (0.34%), Rye Brook Capital LLC (0.28%) and Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include David J Deno, Elizabeth A Smith, Gregg Scarlett and Kelly Lefferts.
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