18-Mar-2024
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National Beverage Corp. Reports Exceptional Winter Quarter
Business Wire (Thu, 7-Mar 4:15 PM ET)
National Beverage Corp is a non-alcoholic beverage company in the U.S. Its portfolio skews toward functional drinks (that is those purporting to offer health benefits) and is anchored by the popular LaCroix sparkling water trademark. Other offerings include Rip It energy drinks, Everfresh juices, and soda brands like Shasta and Faygo. The firm controls the majority of its production and distribution apparatus, with very little outsourcing. In terms of go-to-market, it uses warehouse distribution for big-box retailers, direct-store delivery for convenience stores and other small outlets, and food-service distributors for the food-service channel (schools, hospitals, restaurants). It is controlled by chairman and CEO Nick Caporella, who owns over 73% of the common stock.
National Beverage Corp. trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FIZZ.
As of March 18, 2024, FIZZ stock price climbed to $47.79 with 108,166 million shares trading.
FIZZ has a beta of 0.12, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FIZZ has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FIZZ has a market cap of $4.47 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter National Beverage Corp. reported $270 million in Revenue and $.42 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-4 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.
In the last 3 years, FIZZ stock traded as high as $64.67 and as low as $38.10.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that FIZZ belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, IWM, VXF.
FIZZ has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -6.7% while the SPY ETF gained +33.9%. FIZZ has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -3.4% and -7.4%, respectively, while the SPY returned +9.6% and +0.3%, respectively.
FIZZ support price is $46.31 and resistance is $47.86 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that FIZZ stock will trade within this expected range on the day.