Panera Bread Co (PNRA) Preview For Upcoming Quarterly Earnings
Panera Bread Co (NASDAQ:PNRA) is expected to report last fiscal quarter's results after the closing bell on February 07, 2012. We can review how Panera Bread Co has performed recently.
Panera Bread Company, together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, and franchises retail bakery-cafes in the United States and Canada. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Panera Bread Co trades an average of 331,000 shares per day and has a marketcap of $4.4 Billion.
52 Week High: $152.93
52 Week Low: $96.68
Book Value: $20.72
Float Short:   5.42%
Analysts are expecting an improvement of $0.44 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.97. A beat of $1.41 per share , will top the estimated mean earnings. Analyst estimates range between $1.40 and $1.45 per share.
The P/E ratio has been recently discounted, as the current trailing twelve months P/E ratio is 33.3, while the forward P/E ratio is now 26.9. A falling PE ratio may signal a bargain for astute investors, or maybe time to move on.
In the last month, the stock has increased in price 8.86%, with a change from a year ago of 55.14%.
The stock is performing similar when compared to the general stock market up to this point. When reviewed with the S&P 500, the year up to date positive change is 0.43%.
For the same fiscal period year-over-year, revenue has improved to $1.54 billion for 2010 vs. $1.35 billion for 2009. The bottom line has rising earnings year-over-year of $111.87 million for 2010 vs. $86.05 million for 2009.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are rising with an EBIT year-over-year of $185.07 million for 2010 vs. $140.90 million for 2009. Rising revenue along with rising earnings is a very good sign and what we want to see with our companies. Be sure to check the margins in the earnings release to make sure that the bottom line is keeping up with the top line.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue. 
Here is the last few quarters to get an idea how well they perform compared to estimates 
Reported earnings per share compared to the mean estimate. Differences are rounded.
The total short interest number of shares for PNRA 
The number of days to cover short interest based on average daily trading volume for PNRA 
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