National Vision Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:EYE) saw a downside of -1.68% to close Friday at $19.27 after subtracting -$0.33 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,026,640 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $19.88 in the past week and touched a new high 3 times within the past 5 days. An average of 1,494,975 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,314,550.
EYE’s 1-month performance is -21.35% or -$4.97 on its low of $18.82 reached on 08/15/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $17.25 and high of $43.82, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, EYE has lost -50.28% or -$19.49 and has reached a new high 6 times. However, the current price is down -56.02% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
EYE stock investors last saw insider trading activity on May 23.Acharya Ravi (SVP, Chief Technology Officer) most recently sold 1,394 shares at $40.00 per share on Jan 04. This transaction cost the insider $55,760.
Valuation Metrics
EYE stock has a beta of 1.33. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.75 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.66, with the price to cash flow ratio at 48.79.
National Vision Holdings Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.00, 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 0.61, while the total debt to equity was 0.62. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 53.50%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 8.02% while for the period ending June 29, National Vision Holdings Inc.’s operating margin was 2.30%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.08 billion against revenue of $2.01 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 shrunk -73.44% to $5.61 million, while revenue of $18.27 million was -225.67% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected EYE to announce $0.12 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.17, representing a 41.70% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $33.66 million. EYE stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 1.43 billion, with total debt at $1.02 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $78.16 million.
Let’s look briefly at National Vision Holdings Inc. (EYE) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 18 August was 30.42% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 35.67%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $19.35, reflecting a -2.28% or -$0.45 change from its current price. EYE is currently trading -20.27% above its 20-day SMA, +8.93% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -26.65% and SMA200 by-47.98%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 22.66% and 19.44% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.76. The RSI (14) points at 32.47%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 14.85% with the period’s ATR at 0.81. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.27 and -0.84 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for National Vision Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: EYE), Wells Fargo downgraded it to an Equal weight rating. They previously had an Overweight rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for EYE stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate EYE as a “sell,”, while 5 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 6 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is EYE’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $19.00 and a high of $31.50, with their median price target at $23.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for National Vision Holdings Inc. (EYE) stock is $23.86.
