Fat Brands Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

FAT Stock  USD 7.61  0.01  0.13%   
Considering the 90-day investment horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding FAT Brands is 'Strong Sell'. Macroaxis provides FAT Brands buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding FAT positions. The advice algorithm takes into account all of FAT Brands' available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site. Key drivers impacting FAT Brands' buy or sell advice are summarized below:
Real Value
10.44
Target Price
20
Hype Value
7.29
Market Value
7.61
Naive Value
8
A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell FAT Brands given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards FAT Brands. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for FAT Brands, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell FAT BrandsBuy FAT Brands
Strong Sell

Market Performance

OKDetails

Volatility

Somewhat reliableDetails

Hype Condition

Over hypedDetails

Current Valuation

UndervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

Below AverageDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Actively responds to the marketDetails

Investor Sentiment

InterestedDetails

Analyst Consensus

Strong BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

PoorDetails

Financial Leverage

InapplicableDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Possible ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon FAT Brands has a Mean Deviation of 2.39, Semi Deviation of 2.82, Standard Deviation of 3.42, Variance of 11.72, Downside Variance of 10.11 and Semi Variance of 7.95
We provide trade advice to complement the prevailing expert consensus on FAT Brands. Our dynamic recommendation engine uses a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the company's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available today. To make sure FAT Brands is not overpriced, please confirm all FAT Brands fundamentals, including its cash flow from operations, current asset, and the relationship between the cash per share and beta . Given that FAT Brands has a price to earning of 16.21 X, we urge you to verify FAT Brands market performance and probability of bankruptcy to ensure the company can sustain itself for few more years given your prevailing risk tolerance and investing horizon.

FAT Brands Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

FAT Brands had very high historical volatility over the last 90 days
The company has 1.38 B in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 7.2, demonstrating that the company may be unable to create cash to meet all of its financial commitments. FAT Brands has a current ratio of 0.4, suggesting that it has not enough short term capital to pay financial commitments when the payables are due. Debt can assist FAT Brands until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, FAT Brands' shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like FAT Brands sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for FAT to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about FAT Brands' use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.
The entity reported the last year's revenue of 480.46 M. Reported Net Loss for the year was (90.11 M) with profit before taxes, overhead, and interest of 140.99 M.
FAT Brands has about 23.91 M in cash with (35.61 M) of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 1.44.
FAT Brands has a poor financial position based on the latest SEC disclosures
Roughly 71.0% of FAT Brands shares are held by company insiders
On 1st of March 2024 FAT Brands paid $ 0.14 per share dividend to its current shareholders
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FAT Brands Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of FAT Brands' historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of FAT Brands' future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of FAT Brands daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use FAT Brands price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of FAT Brands returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for FAT Brands.
Mean Return
0.38
Value At Risk
-4.84
Potential Upside
6.37
Standard Deviation
3.42
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of FAT Brands historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

FAT Stock Institutional Investors

Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as FAT Brands is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading FAT Brands backward and forwards among themselves. FAT Brands' institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase FAT Brands' securities or originates loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
Shares
Cambridge Invest Research Advisors, Inc.2023-12-31
10.7 K
Advisor Group Holdings, Inc.2023-12-31
5.3 K
Morgan Stanley - Brokerage Accounts2023-12-31
4.6 K
Copeland Capital Management, Llc2023-12-31
3.4 K
Tower Research Capital Llc2023-12-31
3.1 K
Wells Fargo & Co2023-12-31
2.5 K
Psi Advisors, Llc2023-12-31
1000
Hartland & Co2023-12-31
500
Royal Bank Of Canada2023-12-31
66.0
Adw Capital Management, Llc2023-12-31
587.4 K
Vanguard Group Inc2023-12-31
188.8 K
Note, although FAT Brands' institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

FAT Brands Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change To Inventory853K(4.8M)13.4M0.0(2.4M)(2.5M)
Change In Cash(628K)7.2M92.7M(31.2M)23.1M24.3M
Free Cash Flow3.0M(11.9M)(9.7M)(70.6M)(57.1M)(54.3M)
Other Non Cash Items1.5M10.6M13.2M50.9M6.7M10.8M
Dividends Paid2K318K13.3M16.6M(16.3M)(15.5M)
Capital Expenditures45K460K10.4M23.2M21.5M22.6M
Net Income(1.0M)(14.9M)(31.6M)(126.2M)(90.1M)(85.6M)
End Period Cash Flow25K7.2M99.9M68.8M91.9M96.5M
Net Borrowings6.3M49.2M803.9M50.3M57.9M55.0M
Depreciation785K1.2M8.6M27.0M31.1M32.7M
Change To Netincome4.1M5.7M32.3M78.8M90.6M95.1M
Investments(10.5M)(13.4M)212K1.8M(12.4M)(13.0M)

FAT Brands Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to FAT Brands or Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that FAT Brands' price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a FAT stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over NYSE Composite
0.13
β
Beta against NYSE Composite1.89
σ
Overall volatility
3.53
Ir
Information ratio 0.07

FAT Brands Volatility Alert

FAT Brands shows above-average downside volatility for the selected time horizon. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure FAT Brands' stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact FAT Brands' stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

FAT Brands Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing FAT Brands' fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze FAT Brands' direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between FAT Brands and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as FAT Brands or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of FAT Brands' fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing FAT Brands by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare FAT Brands to competition
FundamentalsFAT BrandsPeer Average
Return On Equity-1.57-0.31
Return On Asset0.0031-0.14
Profit Margin(0.19) %(1.27) %
Operating Margin(0.12) %(5.51) %
Current Valuation1.47 B16.62 B
Shares Outstanding15.69 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders70.65 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions7.10 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted53.04 K4.71 M
Price To Earning16.21 X28.72 X
Price To Book12.81 X9.51 X
Price To Sales0.27 X11.42 X
Revenue480.46 M9.43 B
Gross Profit140.99 M27.38 B
EBITDA56.83 M3.9 B
Net Income(90.11 M)570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents23.91 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share1.44 X5.01 X
Total Debt1.38 B5.32 B
Debt To Equity7.20 %48.70 %
Current Ratio0.41 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share(17.75) X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations(35.61 M)971.22 M
Short Ratio1.48 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share(5.85) X3.12 X
Target Price20.0
Number Of Employees2.6 K18.84 K
Beta1.86-0.15
Market Capitalization127.5 M19.03 B
Total Asset1.39 B29.47 B
Retained Earnings(268.78 M)9.33 B
Working Capital(155.59 M)1.48 B
Current Asset1.99 M9.34 B
Note: Purchase by Andrew Wiederhorn of 1000 shares of FAT Brands [view details]

FAT Brands Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as FAT . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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 2021 2022 2023 2024 (projected)
Other Current Liabilities153.4M182.2M192.4M202.1M
Total Assets1.3B1.2B1.4B1.5B

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When determining whether FAT Brands is a strong investment it is important to analyze FAT Brands' competitive position within its industry, examining market share, product or service uniqueness, and competitive advantages. Beyond financials and market position, potential investors should also consider broader economic conditions, industry trends, and any regulatory or geopolitical factors that may impact FAT Brands' future performance. For an informed investment choice regarding FAT Stock, refer to the following important reports:
Check out FAT Brands Analyst Recommendation to compare Macroaxis Buy or Sell Recommendation with the current analyst consensus. To check ratings for multiple equity instruments, please use the Instant Ratings tool.
For more information on how to buy FAT Stock please use our How to Invest in FAT Brands guide.
Note that the FAT Brands information on this page should be used as a complementary analysis to other FAT Brands' statistical models used to find the right mix of equity instruments to add to your existing portfolios or create a brand new portfolio. You can also try the Alpha Finder module to use alpha and beta coefficients to find investment opportunities after accounting for the risk.

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Is FAT Brands' industry expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of FAT Brands. If investors know FAT will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about FAT Brands listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
112.056
Dividend Share
0.56
Earnings Share
(5.85)
Revenue Per Share
28.945
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.528
The market value of FAT Brands is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of FAT that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of FAT Brands' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is FAT Brands' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because FAT Brands' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect FAT Brands' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between FAT Brands' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if FAT Brands is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, FAT Brands' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.