Hostess Brands is a packaged foods business based in the US. Hostess Brands shares (TWNK) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $33.30 – the same closing value as a week prior. Hostess Brands employs 2,800 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.4 billion.
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| Latest market close | $33.30 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $33.14 - $33.42 |
| 50-day moving average | $32.99 |
| 200-day moving average | $26.94 |
| Wall St. target price | $34.06 |
| PE ratio | 35.4255 |
| Dividend yield | $0 (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.94 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $33.3 from 2023-11-14
| 1 week (2024-10-07) | N/A |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-09-14) | N/A |
| 3 months (2024-07-14) | N/A |
| 6 months (2024-04-14) | N/A |
| 1 year (2023-10-18) | 0.21% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-10-17) | 37.72% |
| 3 years (2021-10-18) | 83.27% |
| 5 years (2019-10-18) | 153.52% |
Valuing Hostess Brands stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Hostess Brands's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Hostess Brands's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 35x. In other words, Hostess Brands shares trade at around 35x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Hostess Brands's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.3732. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Hostess Brands's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Hostess Brands's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $291.7 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Hostess Brands's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.4 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 15.38% |
| Gross profit TTM | $465.7 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.13% |
| Return on equity TTM | 6.88% |
| Profit margin | 9.1% |
| Book value | $14.13 |
| Market Capitalization | $4.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Hostess Brands to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Hostess Brands's shares have ranged in value from as little as $33.14 up to $33.42. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Hostess Brands's is 0.531. This would suggest that Hostess Brands's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Hostess Brands, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and distributes snack products in the United States and Canada. The company provides a range of snack cakes, donuts, sweet rolls, breakfast pastries, cookies, snack pies, sweet baked goods, wafers, bread and buns, danishes, honey buns, coffee cakes, and sugar-free products. It offers its products under the Hostess, Dolly Madison, Cloverhill, Voortman, CupCakes, Twinkies, Donettes, Sno Balls, Ding Dongs, Zingers, Ho Hos, and Big Texas brands. The company was formerly known as Gores Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Hostess Brands, Inc. in November 2016.
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