How to buy Noodles-and-Company stock | 8.05

Noodles & Company is a restaurants business based in the US. Noodles-and-Company shares (NDLS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Noodles-and-Company employs 8,900 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$412.7 million.

How to buy shares in Noodles-and-Company

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3. Search for Noodles-and-Company. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: NDLS. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
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5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$8.05, 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 Noodles-and-Company, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Noodles-and-Company. 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 Noodles-and-Company's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$8.05, which is 7.26% down on its pre-crash value of USD$8.68 and 138.87% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$3.37.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Noodles-and-Company shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$548.76 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$1,121.20.

Noodles-and-Company share price

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Noodles-and-Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-16.

Latest market close	USD$8.05
52-week range	USD$3.14 - USD$9.06
50-day moving average	USD$7.5597
200-day moving average	USD$6.3594
Wall St. target price	USD$8.7
PE ratio	140.0912
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.059

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Is it a good time to buy Noodles-and-Company stock?

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Noodles-and-Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $8.05 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-22)	-5.18%
1 month (2020-09-29)	15.00%
3 months (2020-07-29)	11.81%
6 months (2020-04-29)	26.77%

1 year (2019-10-29)	51.32%
2 years (2018-10-29)	-14.36%
3 years (2017-10-27)	78.89%
5 years (2015-10-29)	-45.01%

Is Noodles-and-Company under- or over-valued?

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

Noodles-and-Company's P/E ratio

Noodles-and-Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 140x. In other words, Noodles-and-Company shares trade at around 140x recent earnings.

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

Noodles-and-Company's EBITDA

Noodles-and-Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$17.6 million.

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

Noodles-and-Company financials

Revenue TTM	USD$412.7 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$79.1 million
Return on assets TTM	-0.63%
Return on equity TTM	-41.05%
Profit margin	-3.94%
Book value	$0.728
Market capitalisation	USD$360.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Noodles-and-Company shares

There are currently 2.7 million Noodles-and-Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Noodles-and-Company's "short interest". This figure is 21.5% down from 3.4 million last month.

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

Noodles-and-Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Noodles-and-Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Noodles-and-Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Noodles-and-Company shares traded daily (recently around 285946.36752137). Noodles-and-Company's SIR currently stands at 9.36. In other words for every 100,000 Noodles-and-Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 9360 shares are currently held short.

However Noodles-and-Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Noodles-and-Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable Noodles-and-Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Noodles-and-Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.06% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Noodles-and-Company shares in existence, roughly 60 shares are currently held short) or 0.0859% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Noodles-and-Company shares, roughly 86 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 Noodles-and-Company.

Find out more about how you can short Noodles-and-Company stock.

Noodles-and-Company share dividends

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

Noodles-and-Company share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Noodles-and-Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.14 up to $9.06. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Noodles-and-Company's is 1.0452. This would suggest that Noodles-and-Company's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Noodles-and-Company overview

Noodles & Company develops and operates fast-casual restaurants in the United States. It offers cooked-to-order dishes, including noodles and pasta, soups, salads, and appetizers. As of December 31, 2019, the company operated 389 company-owned and 68 franchised restaurants in 29 states, and the District of Columbia. Noodles & Company was founded in 1995 and is based in Broomfield, Colorado.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Noodles-and-Company is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 10.14% of Noodles-and-Company shares are held by insiders and 92.039% by institutions.

• How many people work for Noodles-and-Company?

  Latest data suggests 8,900 work at Noodles-and-Company.

• When does the fiscal year end for Noodles-and-Company?

  Noodles-and-Company's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Noodles-and-Company based?

  Noodles-and-Company's address is: 520 Zang Street, Broomfield, CO, United States, 80021

• What is Noodles-and-Company's ISIN number?

  Noodles-and-Company's international securities identification number is: US65540B1052

• What is Noodles-and-Company's CUSIP number?

  Noodles-and-Company's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 65540B105