After Hours
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility.
Stocks Info
POST belongs to the Consumer Defensive sector of the NYSE while operating in the Packaged Foods industry. The current market capitalization of Post Holdings Inc is $6.26B. A total of 0.79 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 588.85K shares.
In the most recent transaction, HARPER BRADLY A sold 1,000 shares of POST for 120.09 per share on Dec 05 ’24. After the transaction, the SVP, CHIEF ACCTING OFFICER now owns 11,220 company shares. In a previous transaction on Dec 05 ’24, HARPER BRADLY A bought 1,000 shares at 120.09 per share.
Among the insiders who sold shares, CATOGGIO NICOLAS disposed of 6,000 shares on Dec 02 ’24 at a per-share price of $121.14. This resulted in the PRES & CEO, PCB holding 70,501 shares of POST after the transaction. In another insider transaction, Zadoks Jeff A sold 28,969 shares at $119.96 per share on Nov 27 ’24. Company shares held by the EVP & COO now total 67,788.
While price targets are rarely accurate, they tend to exert some kind of influence from time to time and are often taken into account by investors. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, POST has a high of $125.84 and a low of $91.09.
As of this writing, POST has an earnings estimate of $1.52 per share for the current quarter. EPS was calculated based on a consensus of 9.0 estimates, with a high estimate of $1.77 per share and a lower estimate of $1.06.
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
An organization’s balance sheet depicts the assets and liabilities it has, as well as the amount of equity invested. Investors can measure a company’s prospects by calculating its financial ratios using this information. POST’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $664.50M in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2021. There were $6.57B in debt and $1.05B in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $70.04, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $3.06B.
Analysts Opinion
There is a slight risk associated with trading before and after the market open. Due to lower liquidity and higher volatility, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads on particular security due to the release of critical financial information after regular trading hours. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for POST is Buy with a score of 4.56.
