Q1 Earnings Estimate for BJ’s Restaurants Issued By Wedbush

BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) – Equities research analysts at Wedbush lowered their Q1 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for BJ’s Restaurants in a research note issued to investors on Friday, February 21st. Wedbush analyst N. Setyan now expects that the restaurant operator will post earnings of $0.35 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $0.43. Wedbush currently has a “Outperform” rating and a $48.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for BJ’s Restaurants’ current full-year earnings is $1.50 per share. Wedbush also issued estimates for BJ’s Restaurants’ Q2 2025 earnings at $0.73 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $1.74 EPS and Q1 2026 earnings at $0.49 EPS.

BJ’s Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 20th. The restaurant operator reported $0.47 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.12. BJ’s Restaurants had a net margin of 1.23% and a return on equity of 8.76%. The business had revenue of $344.34 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $336.48 million.

Several other research analysts have also recently weighed in on the company. Barclays boosted their price objective on BJ’s Restaurants from $34.00 to $37.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research report on Friday, February 21st. Gordon Haskett raised BJ’s Restaurants from an “underperform” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $36.00 price objective on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, January 8th. Piper Sandler boosted their target price on shares of BJ’s Restaurants from $35.00 to $36.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, November 4th. Finally, Oppenheimer cut shares of BJ’s Restaurants from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 7th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, BJ’s Restaurants has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $40.40.

BJ’s Restaurants Stock Up 1.7 %

BJ’s Restaurants stock opened at $38.63 on Monday. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $35.61 and its 200 day simple moving average is $34.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a quick ratio of 0.28 and a current ratio of 0.04. BJ’s Restaurants has a fifty-two week low of $27.61 and a fifty-two week high of $41.72. The stock has a market cap of $881.54 million, a PE ratio of 56.81, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.81 and a beta of 2.11.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its position in shares of BJ’s Restaurants by 6.8% during the 4th quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,242,137 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $43,642,000 after buying an additional 78,852 shares during the last quarter. Nomura Holdings Inc. lifted its stake in shares of BJ’s Restaurants by 23.9% during the 4th quarter. Nomura Holdings Inc. now owns 837,031 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $29,409,000 after buying an additional 161,495 shares in the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. lifted its stake in shares of BJ’s Restaurants by 12.8% during the 4th quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 699,434 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $24,575,000 after buying an additional 79,512 shares in the last quarter. Emerald Advisers LLC lifted its stake in shares of BJ’s Restaurants by 2.6% during the 4th quarter. Emerald Advisers LLC now owns 583,828 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $20,513,000 after buying an additional 14,607 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of BJ’s Restaurants by 1.0% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 493,006 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $16,056,000 after buying an additional 5,075 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.95% of the company’s stock.

BJ’s Restaurants Company Profile

BJ’s Restaurants, Inc owns and operates casual dining restaurants in the United States. Its restaurants offer pizzas, craft and other beers, appetizers, entrées, pastas, sandwiches, specialty salads, and desserts under brand name Pizookie. The company was formerly known as Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Inc and changed its name to BJ’s Restaurants, Inc in August 2004.