Yahoo Finance Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know
Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) closed at $138.06 in the latest trading session, marking a -1.39% move from the prior day. This change lagged the S&P 500's 0.3% gain on the day. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 0.14%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 5.74%.
Heading into today, shares of the sporting goods retailer had gained 0.4% over the past month, lagging the Retail-Wholesale sector's gain of 3.51% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.85% in that time.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Dick's Sporting Goods as it approaches its next earnings report date. This is expected to be May 23, 2023. The company is expected to report EPS of $3.18, up 11.58% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $2.83 billion, up 4.72% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $13.50 per share and revenue of $12.73 billion. These totals would mark changes of +12.13% and +2.9%, respectively, from last year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for Dick's Sporting Goods. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.03% lower within the past month. Dick's Sporting Goods currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, Dick's Sporting Goods currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 10.37. Its industry sports an average Forward P/E of 11.15, so we one might conclude that Dick's Sporting Goods is trading at a discount comparatively.
Meanwhile, DKS's PEG ratio is currently 1.91. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. Retail - Miscellaneous stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 1.79 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Retail - Miscellaneous industry is part of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 191, putting it in the bottom 25% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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