Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) currently has an Average Broker Rating of 2. This number is based on the 8 sell-side firms polled by Zacks. The ABR rank within the industry stands at 115.
Analysts on a consensus basis are expecting that the stock will reach $110.67 within the year. The ABR is provided by Zacks which simplfies analyst ratings into an integer based number. They use a one to five scale where they translate brokerage firm Buy/Sell/Hold recommendations into an average broker rating. A low number in the 1-2 range typically indicates a Buy, 3 represents a Hold and 4-5 represents a consensus Sell rating.
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Earnings
Research analysts are predicting that Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) will report earnings of $2.02 per share when the firm issues their next quarterly report. This is the consensus earnings per share number according to data from Zack’s Research.
Most recently Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) posted quarterly earnings of $0.53 which compared to the sell-side estimates of 1.97. The stock’s 12-month trailing earnings per share stands at $4.63. Shares have moved $4.17 over the past month and more recently, $0.53 over the past week heading into the earnings announcement. There are 6 analyst projections that were taken into consideration from respected brokerage firms.
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) closed the last session at $97.13 and sees an average of 1107217.13 shares trade hands in each session. The 52-week low of the stock stands at $76.16 while the current level stands at 52.7% of the 52-week High-Low range. Looking further out we can see that the stock has moved -7.5% over the past 12 weeks and 24.86% year to date.
Buy Ratings
4 analysts rate Hasbro, Inc. a Buy or Strong Buy, which is 50% of all the analyst ratings.
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