Five Below Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVE) saw an upside of 2.70% to close Friday at $194.25 after adding $5.1 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 513,740 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $198.33 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 501,070 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 503,078.
FIVE’s 1-month performance is -2.53% or -$6.81 on its low of $187.58 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $123.55 and high of $220.19, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 04/12/23. YTD, FIVE has achieved 9.83% or $17.38 and has reached a new high 17 times. However, the current price is down -11.78% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
FIVE stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Jun 07.SARGENT RONALD (Director) most recently sold 55 shares at $193.03 per share on Jun 07. This transaction cost the insider $10,617. Director, Vellios Thomas, sold 20,000 shares at a price of $219.15 on Apr 11. Then, on Apr 11, President & CEO Anderson Joel D sold 13,653 shares at a price of $218.97 per share. This transaction amounted to $2,989,582.
Valuation Metrics
FIVE stock has a beta of 1.20. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 3.33 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 7.79, with the price to cash flow ratio at 88.40.
Five Below Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended April 29 was 0.90, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.80. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 35.50%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 15.00% while for the period ending April 29, Five Below Inc.’s operating margin was 10.90%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.1 billion against revenue of $3.08 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending April 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 12.7% to $37.48 million, while revenue of $171.32 million was -357.1% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected FIVE to announce $0.63 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.67, representing a 6.30% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $71.6 million. FIVE stock balance sheet for the quarter ending April 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 1.99 billion, with total debt at $1.52 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $55.66 million.
Let’s look briefly at Five Below Inc. (FIVE) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 18 August was 46.25% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 26.54%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $194.04, reflecting a +0.75% or $1.45 change from its current price. FIVE is currently trading -3.30% above its 20-day SMA, -2.48% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +2.69% and SMA200 by+32.73%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 20.34% and 23.98% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 5.03. The RSI (14) points at 46.81%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 32.07% with the period’s ATR at 4.96. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.34 and -3.49 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Five Below Inc. (NASDAQ: FIVE), ROTH MKM upgraded it to a Buy rating. They previously had a Neutral rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for FIVE stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate FIVE as a “sell,”, while 3 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 18 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is FIVE’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $185.00 and a high of $269.00, with their median price target at $222.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Five Below Inc. (FIVE) stock is $223.29.
