Seneca Foods
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold?: Half of analysts think investors should stand pat on Seneca Foods. Analysts haven't adjusted their rating of Seneca Foods for the past three months.
- Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $292.1 million in revenue this quarter. That would represent a rise of 6% from the year-ago quarter.
- Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is a loss of $0.04 per share. Estimates range from a loss of $0.06 to a loss of $0.02.
What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are solidly backing the stock with 100% granting it an "outperform" rating. The community at large agrees with the All-Stars with 97.5% assigning it a rating of "outperform." Fools are bullish on Seneca Foods, though the message boards have been quiet lately with only 21 posts in the past 30 days. Even with a robust four out of five stars, Seneca Foods' CAPS rating falls a little short of the community's upbeat outlook.
Management:
The company's gross margin shrank by 9.2 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue rose 17.8% while cost of sales rose 30.1% to $253.2 million from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q1 | Q4 | Q3 | Q2 |
Gross Margin | 2.3% | 5.7% | 7.7% | 6.9% |
Operating Margin | (3.9%) | (0.4%) | 4.3% | 1.5% |
Net Margin | (3.1%) | (0.7%) | 2.6% | 1.0% |
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