Analyzing Performance Food Stock Performance

By Tamara Parker • Wednesday, September 03 10:08 • Permanent Link

Performance Food logged a -1.0% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $104.18 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. PFGC's trading volume is 62,835 compared to the stock's average volume of 1,550,077.

Performance Food trades -11.02% away from its average analyst target price of $117.08 per share. The 12 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $102.0 to $127.0, and on average have given Performance Food a rating of buy.

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

Performance Food's current price is 151.9% above its Graham number of $41.35, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Performance Food has moved 43.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 16.2%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.18, Performance Food has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 47.8 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
PFGC has a forward P/E ratio of 18.5 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $5.63 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 3.61 compared to its sector average of 2.93
Performance Food Group Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and distribution of food and food-related products in North America.
Based in Richmond, the company has 42,570 full time employees and a market cap of $16.31 Billion.

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