Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 4.100-4.720 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 5.030. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.2 billion-$4.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.2 billion. Five Below also updated its FY26 guidance to $4.10-$4.72 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts recently issued reports on the company. Telsey Advisory Group cut their price objective on Five Below from $115.00 to $85.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on Five Below from $100.00 to $120.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 5th. Mizuho lifted their target price on Five Below from $90.00 to $105.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, December 6th. StockNews.com downgraded Five Below from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Friday, December 13th. Finally, Barclays lifted their target price on Five Below from $90.00 to $100.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 5th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have assigned a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Five Below presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $107.37.

Five Below Stock Up 2.3 %

FIVE traded up $1.68 during trading on Wednesday, hitting $75.59. 4,560,897 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,739,677. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.16 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.59, a PEG ratio of 1.19 and a beta of 1.11. Five Below has a 1-year low of $64.87 and a 1-year high of $209.79. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $89.24 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $92.75.

Five Below (NASDAQ:FIVE) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March 19th. The specialty retailer reported $3.48 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.38 by $0.10. The company had revenue of $1.39 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.38 billion. Five Below had a return on equity of 18.03% and a net margin of 7.02%. The firm’s revenue was up 4.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $3.65 earnings per share. Analysts predict that Five Below will post 4.93 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CAO Eric M. Specter sold 5,494 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $90.76, for a total transaction of $498,635.44. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 57,267 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $5,197,552.92. This represents a 8.75 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 1.90% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Five Below Company Profile

Five Below, Inc operates as a specialty value retailer in the United States. The company offers range of accessories, which includes novelty socks, sunglasses, jewelry, scarves, gloves, hair accessories, athletic tops and bottoms, and t-shirts, as well as nail polish, lip gloss, fragrance, and branded cosmetics; and personalized living space products, such as lamps, posters, frames, fleece blankets, plush items, pillows, candles, incense, lighting, novelty décor, accent furniture, and related items, as well as provides storage options.