Cava Group Inc (CAVA): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

Cava Group Inc (NYSE:CAVA) does about 2.42M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2846521 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 8.02B USD. Its current market price is $70.59, marking an increase of 2.07% compared to the previous close of $69.16. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $71.60 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $29.05.

Cava Group Inc (CAVA) has a 20-day trading average at $63.52 and the current price is -1.41% off the 52-week high compared with 142.99% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $62.13 and its 200-day simple moving average is $46.05. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 6.00%, which decreases to 5.46% 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 64.64 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $65.49, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -7.79% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 15, 2024 when Barclays initiated the stock to “Equal Weight” and issued a price target of $58. Argus upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Hold on April 10, 2024 at a price target of $70.

Cava Group Inc (CAVA) stock is up 18.42% over the week and 0.77% over the past month. Its price is 64.24% year-to-date.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -7.79 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 1.52% and return on equity of 3.39%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 603.85 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 219.08. Price to book ratio is 14.05 and price to sales ratio is 11.01.