How to buy Abercrombie-and-Fitch stock | $20.04

Abercrombie & Fitch Co is an apparel retail business based in the US. Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares (ANF) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Abercrombie-and-Fitch employs 8,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3.2 billion.

How to buy shares in Abercrombie-and-Fitch

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Abercrombie-and-Fitch. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ANF. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Abercrombie-and-Fitch reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$20.04, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Abercrombie-and-Fitch, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Abercrombie-and-Fitch. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Abercrombie-and-Fitch share price

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Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$20.04
52-week range	USD$7.415 - USD$23.82
50-day moving average	USD$20.4418
200-day moving average	USD$14.4111
Wall St. target price	USD$22.36
PE ratio	17.35
Dividend yield	USD$0.8 (6.9%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.797

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Abercrombie-and-Fitch price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $20.04 from 2020-12-18

1 week (2021-01-08)	-6.92%
1 month (2020-12-16)	-1.18%
3 months (2020-10-16)	28.13%
6 months (2020-07-16)	90.68%

1 year (2020-01-16)	9.57%
2 years (2019-01-16)	3.41%
3 years (2018-01-16)	7.80%
5 years (2016-01-15)	25.55

Is Abercrombie-and-Fitch under- or over-valued?

Valuing Abercrombie-and-Fitch stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Abercrombie-and-Fitch's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's P/E ratio

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 17x. In other words, Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares trade at around 17x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's EBITDA

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$187.1 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Abercrombie-and-Fitch's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Abercrombie-and-Fitch financials

Revenue TTM	USD$3.2 billion
Operating margin TTM	1.08%
Gross profit TTM	USD$2.2 billion
Return on assets TTM	0.64%
Return on equity TTM	-11.77%
Profit margin	-3.55%
Book value	$13.615
Market capitalisation	USD$1.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares

There are currently 6.6 million Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares held short by investors – that's known as Abercrombie-and-Fitch's "short interest". This figure is 16.9% down from 8.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares can be evaluated.

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares traded daily (recently around 2.3 million). Abercrombie-and-Fitch's SIR currently stands at 2.94. In other words for every 100,000 Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2940 shares are currently held short.

However Abercrombie-and-Fitch's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares, or, against the total number of tradable Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Abercrombie-and-Fitch's short interest could be expressed as 0.11% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares in existence, roughly 110 shares are currently held short) or 0.1458% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares, roughly 146 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Abercrombie-and-Fitch.

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Abercrombie-and-Fitch share dividends

We're not expecting Abercrombie-and-Fitch to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Abercrombie-and-Fitch's shares ever split?

Abercrombie-and-Fitch's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 16 June 1999. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares which in turn could have impacted Abercrombie-and-Fitch's share price.

Abercrombie-and-Fitch share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Abercrombie-and-Fitch's shares have ranged in value from as little as $7.415 up to $23.82. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Abercrombie-and-Fitch's is 1.8315. This would suggest that Abercrombie-and-Fitch's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Abercrombie-and-Fitch overview

Abercrombie & Fitch Co., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer. The company operates in two segments, Hollister and Abercrombie. It offers an assortment of apparel, personal care products, intimates, and accessories for men, women, and children under the Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie kids, Moose, Seagull, and Gilly Hicks brands. As of May 28, 2020, it operated approximately 850 stores in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The company sells products through its stores and direct-to-consumer channels; various third-party wholesale, franchise, and licensing arrangements; and e-commerce platforms. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in New Albany, Ohio.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Abercrombie-and-Fitch is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.167% of Abercrombie-and-Fitch shares are held by insiders and 102.438% by institutions.

• How many people work for Abercrombie-and-Fitch?

  Latest data suggests 8,000 work at Abercrombie-and-Fitch.

• When does the fiscal year end for Abercrombie-and-Fitch?

  Abercrombie-and-Fitch's fiscal year ends in February.

• Where is Abercrombie-and-Fitch based?

  Abercrombie-and-Fitch's address is: 6301 Fitch Path, New Albany, OH, United States, 43054

• What is Abercrombie-and-Fitch's ISIN number?

  Abercrombie-and-Fitch's international securities identification number is: US0028962076

• What is Abercrombie-and-Fitch's CUSIP number?

  Abercrombie-and-Fitch's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 002896207