How to buy Ennis stock | 16.88

Ennis, Inc is a business equipment & supplies business based in the US. Ennis shares (EBF) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Ennis employs 2,505 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$397.2 million.

How to buy shares in Ennis

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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 Ennis. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: EBF. 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 Ennis 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$16.88, 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 Ennis, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Ennis. 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.

How has coronavirus impacted Ennis's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Ennis's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$16.88, which is 21.05% down on its pre-crash value of USD$21.38 and 20.74% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$13.98.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Ennis shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$758.30 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$815.81.

Ennis share price

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Ennis shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$16.88
52-week range	USD$13.98 - USD$22.21
50-day moving average	USD$17.5985
200-day moving average	USD$17.5749
Wall St. target price	USD$21
PE ratio	14.4386
Dividend yield	USD$0.9 (5.35%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.14

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Ennis price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $16.88 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-19)	1.69%
1 month (2020-10-26)	3.81%
3 months (2020-08-26)	-7.35%
6 months (2020-05-26)	-8.01%

1 year (2019-11-26)	-18.85%
2 years (2018-11-26)	-11.90%
3 years (2017-11-24)	-15.60%
5 years (2015-11-25)	-15.26%

Is Ennis under- or over-valued?

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

Ennis's P/E ratio

Ennis's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 14x. In other words, Ennis shares trade at around 14x 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.

Ennis's PEG ratio

Ennis's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.36. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Ennis's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Ennis's EBITDA

Ennis's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$56.7 million.

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

Ennis financials

Revenue TTM	USD$397.2 million
Operating margin TTM	9.71%
Gross profit TTM	USD$128.9 million
Return on assets TTM	6.67%
Return on equity TTM	10.07%
Profit margin	7.49%
Book value	$11.335
Market capitalisation	USD$429.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Ennis shares

There are currently 699,551 Ennis shares held short by investors – that's known as Ennis's "short interest". This figure is 17% down from 842,597 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Ennis shares can be evaluated.

Ennis's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Ennis's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Ennis shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Ennis shares traded daily (recently around 116981.77257525). Ennis's SIR currently stands at 5.98. In other words for every 100,000 Ennis shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5980 shares are currently held short.

However Ennis's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Ennis shares, or, against the total number of tradable Ennis shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Ennis's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Ennis shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0277% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Ennis shares, roughly 28 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Ennis.

Find out more about how you can short Ennis stock.

Ennis share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 29.26% of net profits

Recently Ennis has paid out, on average, around 29.26% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 5.35% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Ennis shareholders could enjoy a 5.35% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Ennis's case, that would currently equate to about $0.9 per share.

While Ennis's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Ennis may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Ennis's most recent dividend payout was on 6 November 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 8 October 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Ennis's shares ever split?

Ennis's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 1 August 1991. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ennis shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ennis shares which in turn could have impacted Ennis's share price.

Ennis share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Ennis's shares have ranged in value from as little as $13.98 up to $22.21. 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 Ennis's is 0.4672. This would suggest that Ennis's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Ennis overview

Ennis, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells business forms and other business products in the United States. The company offers snap sets, continuous forms, laser cut sheets, tags, labels, envelopes, integrated products, jumbo rolls, and pressure sensitive products under the Ennis, Royal Business Forms, Block Graphics, Specialized Printed Forms, 360º Custom Labels, ColorWorx, Enfusion, Uncompromised Check Solutions, VersaSeal, Ad Concepts, FormSource Limited, Star Award Ribbon Company, Witt Printing, B&D Litho, Genforms, PrintGraphics, Calibrated Forms, PrintXcel, Printegra, Falcon Business Forms, Forms Manufacturers, Mutual Graphics, TRI-C Business Forms, Major Business Systems, Independent Printing, Hoosier Data Forms, Hayes Graphics, Wright Business Graphics, Wright 360, Integrated Print & Graphics, the Flesh Company, Impressions Direct, and Ace Forms brands. It also provides point of purchase advertising for large franchise and fast food chains, as well as kitting and fulfillment under the Adams McClure brand; and presentation folders and document folders under the Admore, Folder Express, and Independent Folders brands. In addition, the company offers custom printed, high performance labels, and custom and stock tags under the Ennis Tag & Label brands; custom and stock tags and labels under the Allen-Bailey Tag & Label, Atlas Tag & Label, Kay Toledo Tag, and Special Service Partners brands; custom and imprinted envelopes under the Trade Envelopes, Block Graphics, Wisco, and National Imprint Corporation brands; and financial and security documents under the Northstar and General Financial Supply brands. It distributes business products and forms through independent distributors. The company was formerly known as Ennis Business Forms, Inc. Ennis, Inc. was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Midlothian, Texas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Ennis is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 3.303% of Ennis shares are held by insiders and 88.145% by institutions.

• How many people work for Ennis?

  Latest data suggests 2,505 work at Ennis.

• When does the fiscal year end for Ennis?

  Ennis's fiscal year ends in February.

• Where is Ennis based?

  Ennis's address is: 2441 Presidential Parkway, Midlothian, TX, United States, 76065

• What is Ennis's ISIN number?

  Ennis's international securities identification number is: US2933891028

• What is Ennis's CUSIP number?

  Ennis's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 293389102