Designer Brands Inc (NYSE:DBI) price on Thursday, March 28, rose 2.92% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $10.93.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $10.62. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.05 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 29.60. Turning to its 52-week performance, $13.44 and $6.14 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, DBI moved 7.90% over the past month.
Designer Brands Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $621.48 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Mar 21, 2024. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.25, with its dividend yield at 2.29%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.15, which has seen fiscal year 2025 EPS growth forecast to increase to $0.76 and about $1.09 for fiscal year 2026. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 11.80% for 2024 and 43.40% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $739.29 million for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $720.32 million and $758.56 million respectively. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2025 to grow to $3.11 billion, representing a 1.30% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was 1 upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that DBI is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 2.02, with DBI’s current price about 2.13% and 12.42% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 56.24, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.45% and 6.12% in the 30-day chart. Further, Designer Brands Inc (DBI) has a beta value of 2.06, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.63.
If we refocus on Designer Brands Inc (NYSE:DBI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.22 million over the past 10 days and 1.34 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 49.49 million shares.
The 26.84% of Designer Brands Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 89.40% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 10.02 million on Mar 15, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 7.7. The data shows that as of Mar 15, 2024 short interest in Designer Brands Inc (DBI) stood at 17.51% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 10.09 million registered in Feb 15, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock 23.50% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the DBI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
