How to buy Turning Point Brands stock | $39.4

Turning Point Brands, Inc is a tobacco business based in the US. Turning Point Brands shares (TPB) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Turning Point Brands employs 466 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$380 million.

How to buy shares in Turning Point Brands

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3. Search for Turning Point Brands. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: TPB. 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 Turning Point Brands 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$39.4, 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 Turning Point Brands, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Turning Point Brands. 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.

Turning Point Brands share price

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Turning Point Brands shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-02.

Latest market close	USD$39.4
52-week range	USD$14.0396 - USD$41.82
50-day moving average	USD$36.3829
200-day moving average	USD$30.0167
Wall St. target price	USD$47.4
PE ratio	101.1209
Dividend yield	USD$0.2 (0.5%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.397

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Turning Point Brands price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $39.4 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-25)	2.58%
1 month (2020-11-06)	2.60%
3 months (2020-09-04)	38.78%
6 months (2020-06-05)	57.29%

1 year (2019-12-05)	48.18%
2 years (2018-12-04)	32.66%
3 years (2017-12-05)	128.67%
5 years (2015-12-02)	N/A

Is Turning Point Brands under- or over-valued?

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

Turning Point Brands's P/E ratio

Turning Point Brands's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 101x. In other words, Turning Point Brands shares trade at around 101x 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.

Turning Point Brands's EBITDA

Turning Point Brands's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$73.6 million.

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

Turning Point Brands financials

Revenue TTM	USD$380 million
Operating margin TTM	18.06%
Gross profit TTM	USD$159.7 million
Return on assets TTM	9.19%
Return on equity TTM	7.55%
Profit margin	2.11%
Book value	$6.129
Market capitalisation	USD$769.3 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Turning Point Brands shares

There are currently 880,074 Turning Point Brands shares held short by investors – that's known as Turning Point Brands's "short interest". This figure is 16.1% up from 757,982 last month.

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

Turning Point Brands's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Turning Point Brands's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Turning Point Brands shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Turning Point Brands shares traded daily (recently around 175313.54581673). Turning Point Brands's SIR currently stands at 5.02. In other words for every 100,000 Turning Point Brands shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5020 shares are currently held short.

However Turning Point Brands's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Turning Point Brands shares, or, against the total number of tradable Turning Point Brands shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Turning Point Brands's short interest could be expressed as 0.05% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Turning Point Brands shares in existence, roughly 50 shares are currently held short) or 0.1094% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Turning Point Brands shares, roughly 109 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 Turning Point Brands.

Find out more about how you can short Turning Point Brands stock.

Turning Point Brands share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 8.4% of net profits

Recently Turning Point Brands has paid out, on average, around 8.4% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.5% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Turning Point Brands shareholders could enjoy a 0.5% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Turning Point Brands's case, that would currently equate to about $0.2 per share.

While Turning Point Brands's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Turning Point Brands is investing more in its future growth.

Turning Point Brands's most recent dividend payout was on 8 January 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 17 December 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Turning Point Brands share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Turning Point Brands's shares have ranged in value from as little as $14.0396 up to $41.82. 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 Turning Point Brands's is 0.6069. This would suggest that Turning Point Brands's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Turning Point Brands overview

Turning Point Brands, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufacture, market, and distribute branded consumer products with active ingredients. The company operates in three segments: Smoking Products, Smokeless Products, and NewGen Products. The Smoking Products segment markets and distributes products primarily used as cannabis accessories, including rolling papers, paper cones, make-your-own cigar wraps, and other related products under the Zig-Zag brand. The Smokeless Products segment manufactures and markets loose leaf chewing tobacco and moist snuff tobacco primarily under the Stoker's and Beech-Nut brands. The NewGen Products segment offers both B2B (Vapor Beast) and B2C (International Vapor Group) online vape distribution platforms along with its new product development business, Nu-X Ventures. Nu-X Ventures develops products with cannabidiol isolate, hemp, nutraceutical, non-tobacco nicotine, and other active ingredients under the Nu-X and Solace brand names. The company sells its products to wholesale distributors and retail merchants in the independent and chain convenience store, tobacco outlet, food store, mass merchandising, drug store, and non-traditional retail channels, as well as through its e-commerce platforms. The company was formerly known as North Atlantic Holding Company, Inc. and changed its name to Turning Point Brands, Inc. in November 2015. Turning Point Brands, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Turning Point Brands is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 4.585% of Turning Point Brands shares are held by insiders and 85.804% by institutions.

• How many people work for Turning Point Brands?

  Latest data suggests 466 work at Turning Point Brands.

• When does the fiscal year end for Turning Point Brands?

  Turning Point Brands's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Turning Point Brands based?

  Turning Point Brands's address is: 5201 Interchange Way, Louisville, KY, United States, 40229

• What is Turning Point Brands's ISIN number?

  Turning Point Brands's international securities identification number is: US90041L1052

• What is Turning Point Brands's CUSIP number?

  Turning Point Brands's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 90041L105