V.F. Corporation (NYSE:VFC) saw an upside of 2.73% to close Tuesday at $19.58 after adding $0.52 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 6,826,380 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $19.94 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 5,733,380 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 6,251,410.
VFC’s 1-month performance is 5.21% or $0.92 on its low of $18.31 reached on 08/03/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $16.77 and high of $48.20, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, VFC has lost -29.08% or -$8.03 and has reached a new high 10 times. However, the current price is down -59.38% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
VFC stock has a beta of 1.47. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.65 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 2.80.
V.F. Corporation’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.60, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.40. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 2.11, while the total debt to equity was 2.47.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 52.30%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $6.1 billion against revenue of $11.61 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 2.56% to -$57.43 million, while revenue of -$851.13 million was -1382.03% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected VFC to announce -$0.11 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.15, representing a -36.40% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $153.81 million. VFC stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 11.33 billion, with total debt at $7.87 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $388.87 million.
Let’s look briefly at V.F. Corporation (VFC) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 08 August was 53.83% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 28.57%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $19.23, reflecting a +0.98% or $0.19 change from its current price. VFC is currently trading +1.61% above its 20-day SMA, -8.16% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +12.21% and SMA200 by-31.18%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 46.99% and 39.96% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.80. The RSI (14) points at 52.41%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 60.00% with the period’s ATR at 0.77. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.02 and -0.07 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for V.F. Corporation (NYSE: VFC), Wells Fargo upgraded it to an Equal weight rating. They previously had an Underweight rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for VFC stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate VFC as a “sell,”, while 12 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 1 rates the stock as overweight while 9 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is VFC’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $18.00 and a high of $33.00, with their median price target at $22.60. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for V.F. Corporation (VFC) stock is $23.61.
