Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE:FUN) price on Wednesday, April 30, fall -2.33% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $34.41.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $35.23, moving within a range at $33.14 and $34.51. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.205. Turning to its 52-week performance, $58.70 and $28.02 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, FUN moved -3.53% over the past month.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $3.45 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-26. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.30, with its dividend yield at 0.87%. 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 234.26M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 217.74M and 242.28M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 130.54% 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 3.4B, representing a 25.45% jump 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 FUN 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.
10 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 9 recommend FUN as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 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.
FUN’s current price about 3.31% and -7.30% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 48.00, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.23% and 6.56% in the 30-day chart. Further, Six Flags Entertainment Corp (FUN) has a beta value of 0.83, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.89. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $50, forecast between a low of $41 and high of $59. Looking at the price targets, the low is -19.15% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -71.46%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -45.31% jump to $50 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE:FUN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.61 over the past 10 days and 1.68 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 100.35 million shares.
The 2.67% of Six Flags Entertainment Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 94.74% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 10.0 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 5.39. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Six Flags Entertainment Corp (FUN) stood at 1188.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 7.64 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -28.60% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the FUN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
