BJ's Restaurants (BJRI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

9 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BJ's Restaurants in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BJRI shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BJRI, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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9 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for BJ's Restaurants' stock. Their BJRI share price targets range from $30.00 to $42.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $37.30 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.3% from the stock's current price.
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BJ's Restaurants' stock was trading at $36.01 at the start of the year. Since then, BJRI stock has decreased by 10.9% and is now trading at $32.07.
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BJ's Restaurants saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,300,000 shares, an increase of 13.3% from the March 15th total of 2,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 376,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.1 days. Currently, 10.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2024.
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BJ's Restaurants will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 15th. The restaurant operator reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.27 by $0.07. The restaurant operator had revenue of $323.64 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $331.03 million. BJ's Restaurants had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 5.45% and a net margin of 1.47%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 6.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.17 earnings per share.

BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.00%. The dividend payout ratio is 62.65%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BJRI will have a dividend payout ratio of 33.12% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF holds 1,307 shares of BJRI stock, representing 1.44% of its portfolio.

541 employees have rated BJ's Restaurants Chief Executive Officer Greg Trojan on Glassdoor.com. Greg Trojan has an approval rating of 77% among the company's employees. 66.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at BJ's Restaurants to a friend.

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BJ's Restaurants' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.15%) and Diversified Trust Co (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Alex Puchner, Brian S Krakower, Christopher P Pinsak, Fund 1 Investments, Llc, Gregory Levin, Kendra D Miller, Peter A Bassi and Pozzo James Dal.
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Shares of BJRI stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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