Village Farms International, Inc. (NASDAQ:VFF) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 6.38% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $1.50.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $1.41. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.21. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $1.45, and the low was $0.55. On the whole, VFF has fluctuated by 102.70% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Village Farms International, Inc. currently standing at about $165.37 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for Mar 07, 2024 – Mar 11, 2024. As a result, investors might want to see an improvement in the stock’s price before the company announces its earnings report. Analysts are projecting the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be -$0.02, which is expected to increase to $0 for fiscal year -$0.07 and then to about -$0.02 by fiscal year 2025. Data indicates that the EPS growth is expected to be 56.20% in 2025, while the next year’s EPS growth is forecast to be 71.40%.
Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at $71.94 million, with a low estimate of $67.8 million and a high estimate of $74.35 million. According to the average forecast, sales growth in current quarter could jump up 1.20%, compared to the corresponding quarter of last year. Wall Street analysts also predicted that in 2025, the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach $307.77 million, representing an increase of 7.80% from the revenues reported in the last year’s results.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that VFF’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of VFF currently trading nearly 59.17% and 72.98% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 82.48, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 12.51% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 10.80%. Furthermore, Village Farms International, Inc. (VFF)’s beta value is 2.27, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.11.
A comparison of Village Farms International, Inc. (VFF) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. VFF showed an intraday change of 6.38% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 80.72%%.
Data on historical trading for Village Farms International, Inc. (NASDAQ:VFF) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.11 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 729.07K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 110.25 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 9.97% of Village Farms International, Inc.’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 16.10% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.43 million shares as on Mar 15, 2024, resulting in a short ratio of 3.11. According to the data, the short interest in Village Farms International, Inc. (VFF) stood at 1.30% of shares outstanding as of Mar 15, 2024; the number of short shares registered in Feb 15, 2024 reached 0.89 million. The stock has risen by 97.11% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the VFF stock heading into the next quarter.
