PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF) price on Wednesday, April 30, fall -0.23% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $17.18.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $17.22, moving within a range at $16.37 and $17.235. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.145. Turning to its 52-week performance, $57.47 and $13.61 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PBF moved -10.01% over the past month.
PBF Energy Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.99 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-12. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.05, with its dividend yield at 6.11%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 6.6B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 5.03B and 9.5B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -23.64% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 28.7B, representing a -13.32% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that PBF is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
25 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 6 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 18 recommend PBF as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
PBF’s current price about 8.24% and -9.34% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 50.01, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.44% and 7.71% in the 30-day chart. Further, PBF Energy Inc (PBF) has a beta value of 0.76, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.08. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $22, forecast between a low of $22 and high of $22. Looking at the price targets, the low is -28.06% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -28.06%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -28.06% jump to $22 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.92 over the past 10 days and 3.15 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 115.31 million shares.
The 28.83% of PBF Energy Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 76.56% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 18.03 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 4.88. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in PBF Energy Inc (PBF) stood at 2661.9999999999995 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 15.49 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -35.29% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PBF stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
