Do Investors Have Much Faith In Burlington Stores Inc (NYSE: BURL)

Burlington Stores Inc (NYSE:BURL) does about 891.79K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1305725 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 12.15B USD. Its current market price is $190.11, marking a decrease of -4.01% compared to the previous close of $198.06. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $232.69 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $115.66.

Burlington Stores Inc (BURL) has a 20-day trading average at $215.30 and the current price is -18.30% off the 52-week high compared with 64.37% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $208.30 and its 200-day simple moving average is $172.31. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.36%, which increases to 2.44% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 30.80 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $243.82, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 22.03% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 08, 2024 when Telsey Advisory Group reiterated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of between $225 and $250. Piper Sandler upgraded the stock to “Overweight” from Neutral on January 17, 2024 at a price target of $155-$240. Evercore ISI initiated its price target at $150.

Burlington Stores Inc (BURL) stock is down -4.90% over the week and -14.01% over the past month. Its price is -2.25% year-to-date and 0.62% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 22.03 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 6.32% and return on equity of 37.91%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 36.17 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 21.02. The beta has a value of 1.50. Price to book ratio is 12.20 and price to sales ratio is 1.25.