News coverage about Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New (NYSE:SIX) has been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New earned a media sentiment score of 0.04 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news coverage about the company an impact score of 47.8125778272125 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the near term.
Here are some of the media stories that may have effected Accern Sentiment’s rankings:
- FY2017 Earnings Forecast for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New Issued By Wedbush (NYSE:SIX) (americanbankingnews.com)
- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New (SIX) Forecasted to Post FY2017 Earnings of $1.99 Per Share (americanbankingnews.com)
- Equities Analysts Offer Predictions for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New’s Q4 2017 Earnings (NYSE:SIX) (americanbankingnews.com)
- Q3 2017 Earnings Estimate for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New Issued By SunTrust Banks (NYSE:SIX) (americanbankingnews.com)
- Final Days to Ride Georgia Cyclone Roller Coaster for Last Days of Summer at Six Flags Over Georgia (finance.yahoo.com)
A number of analysts have commented on SIX shares. B. Riley restated a “buy” rating and issued a $67.00 price target on shares of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New in a research report on Monday, April 24th. Stifel Nicolaus started coverage on Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New in a research report on Thursday, April 20th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $70.00 price target for the company. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Janney Montgomery Scott restated a “buy” rating and issued a $67.00 price target on shares of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New in a research report on Thursday, April 13th. SunTrust Banks, Inc. initiated coverage on Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New in a research report on Wednesday, April 12th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $66.00 price target for the company. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $67.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Wednesday, June 28th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $66.55.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New (SIX) traded down 1.97% during trading on Monday, hitting $56.85. The stock had a trading volume of 928,121 shares. The company has a market cap of $4.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 52.83 and a beta of 1.15. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $58.66 and its 200-day moving average price is $59.88. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New has a 52-week low of $47.61 and a 52-week high of $65.19.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New (NYSE:SIX) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 26th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.70 by $0.11. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New had a net margin of 7.49% and a negative return on equity of 41.86%. The business had revenue of $422.37 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $438.04 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.64 EPS. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New’s revenue for the quarter was up 3.8% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts predict that Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New will post $1.93 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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About Six Flags Entertainment Corporation New
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (Six Flags) is a regional theme park operator. The Company operates in the theme parks segment. The Company operates approximately 19 regional theme and water parks. Its parks occupy approximately 4,500 acres of land. Its parks are located in geographically diverse markets across North America.
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