POST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Post Hldgs | NYSE:POST)

Post Holdings Inc is an consumer packaged goods holding company. It operates in Post Consumer Brands which Includes branded and private label ready-to-eat cereals, Weetabix it Includes the businesses of Weetabix Limited, which Post acquired in July 2017 and which produces and distributes branded and private label RTE cereal, hot cereals and other cereal-based food products, Foodservice which Includes primarily egg and potato products in the foodservice and food ingredient channels from the businesses of MFI Holding Corporation, lastly Refrigerated Retail segment Provides refrigerated retail products, inclusive of side dishes, eggs and egg products, sausage, cheese and other dairy and refrigerated products.

Post Hldgs trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol POST.

As of April 18, 2024, POST stock price climbed to $102.92 with 327,538 million shares trading.

POST has a beta of 0.37, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. POST has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

POST has a market cap of $6.11 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Post Hldgs reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.69 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $46 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.59.

In the last 3 years, POST stock traded as high as $118.32 and as low as $63.53.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that POST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IJH, VB, VXF, VBR.

POST stock has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +17.1%, while SPY returned +22.3%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in POST shares. However, POST has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +10.9% and -1.0%, while SPY returned +6.1% and -3.8%, respectively. This indicates POST has been having a stronger performance recently.

POST support price is $100.31 and resistance is $102.47 (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 POST stock will trade within this expected range on the day.