Ingles Markets, Incorporated (IMKTA) Stock Analysis
Range Bound setup
Consumer Defensive · Grocery Stores
Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $91.17: Near 52-week high (4.5% away); Earnings in 6 days (event risk).
Ingles Markets, Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of supermarkets in the United States. The company offers food products, such as grocery, meat, and dairy products, produce, frozen food, and other perishables; and non-food products, which include... Read more
Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $91.17: Near 52-week high (4.5% away); Earnings in 6 days (event risk). Chart setup: RSI 47 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Score 5.0/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, semi cycle peak clear). Fails on earnings proximity 6d<=7d. Suitability: aggressive.
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2 floor-breakers
Growth below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Sell if holding. Multiple concerning factors at $91.17: Near 52-week high (4.5% away); Earnings in 6 days (event risk). Chart setup: RSI 47 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Prior stop was $86.43. Score 5.0/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $93.71 (+2.7% upside). Prior stop was $86.43. Stop-loss: $86.43.
Near 52-week high (4.5% away); Earnings in 6 days (event risk); Weak growth.
Ingles Markets, Incorporated trades at a P/E of 18.3 (forward 19.5). TrendMatrix value score: 7.1/10. Verdict: Sell.
9 analysts cover IMKTA with a consensus score of 4.2/5.
What does Ingles Markets, Incorporated do?Ingles Markets, Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of supermarkets in the United States....
Ingles Markets, Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of supermarkets in the United States. The company offers food products, such as grocery, meat, and dairy products, produce, frozen food, and other perishables; and non-food products, which include fuel centers, pharmacies, health and beauty care products, and general merchandise, as well as private label items, organic, and locally sourced items. It also owns and operates a milk processing and packaging plant that supplies organic milk, fruit juices, and bottled water products to other retailers, food service distributors, and grocery warehouses. In addition, the company provides home meal replacement items, delicatessens, bakeries, floral departments, and greeting cards, as well as broad selections of local organic, beverage, and health-related items. It operates under the Ingles and Sav-Mor brand names. Ingles Markets, Incorporated was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.