Assessing Tractor Supply – Beyond Technicals to Fundamental Analysis

By Tamara Parker • Monday, December 30 15:15 • Permanent Link

Tractor Supply logged a -2.9% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $52.99 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -1.0%. TSCO's trading volume is 2,212,138 compared to the stock's average volume of 5,174,938.

Tractor Supply trades -9.22% away from its average analyst target price of $58.38 per share. The 29 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $44.0 to $70.0, and on average have given Tractor Supply a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying TSCO should be aware of the facts below:

Tractor Supply's current price is -20.5% below its Graham number of $66.69, which implies the stock has a margin of safety
Tractor Supply has moved 26.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 25.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.06, Tractor Supply has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
TSCO has a forward P/E ratio of 4.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $11.13 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 2.48 compared to its sector average of 3.19
Tractor Supply Company operates as a rural lifestyle retailer in the United States.
Based in Brentwood, the company has 50,000 full time employees and a market cap of $28.31 Billion. Tractor Supply currently returns an annual dividend yield of 7.9%.

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