﻿ Investment Analyst Ratings for Saul Centers Inc. (NYSE:BFS)

Analyst Ratings for Saul Centers Inc. (BFS)

Updated: 2017-07-27

Analysts covering Saul Centers Inc. (NYSE:BFS) have given it a consensus rating of . Last month, BFS received an average rating of .

NULL analysts declared BFS a buy, NULL issued an overweight rating, NULL issued a hold rating, NULL issued an underweight rating, and NULL gave a sell rating. Today, there are 0 more analysts optimistic about the company future as compared with 90 days ago. Over the same time period, there has been an increase of 0 in the number of analysts with a negative outlook on the stock.

Several price targets were given for BFS by the analysts covering the stock. The highest price target was , implying a possible profit of -100 percent. The minimum price target given was , which equates to a potential downside of -100 percent. One must be careful with overanalyzing price targets and ratings due to possible conflicts of interest among the analysts releasing them.

Analysts have revised their earnings estimates upwards for this quarter, by about 0 percent on average, compared to last month. The average change in earnings estimates over the last 90 days is 0 percent. On the other hand, earnings estimates for the fiscal year have been revised upwards by 0 percent, as compared to a month ago. Expanding the time horizon to 3 months, the average change in fiscal year estimates becomes 0 percent.

People are often interested in whether analysts were united in the direction of their revisions. 0 analysts made positive revisions to their quarterly estimates over the past month, while 0 analysts made negative revisions. Over the same time period, 0 analysts revised their FY earnings estimates upwards, while 0 analysts decreased their estimates.

The growth rate of BFS's earnings is estimated by analysts to be 113.51 percent. The PEG ratio of a stock is another value frequently studied by investors. A lower PEG ratio is favorable, because that is often interpreted as the company being fairly priced relative to its growth rate. Wall Street investors typically prefer a PEG ratio to be smaller than 1, though it could be better to see where the ratio stands relative to peers in the industry. The PEG ratio of BFS is 0.35.

In the trailing 52-weeks, BFS hit 68.75 at the highest peak, while it's lowest trading point was 55.86. Today's price is 9.27 percent above the 52-week low, and 11.21 percent below the high. BFS has a P/E ratio of 39.52. Investors typically compare the P/E ratio to a company's peers in the industry. The BFS value stock report compares BFS to some of its peers using value stock charts. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.3 billion. BFS's next earnings release will be on 0000-00-00, which is days away.