Zacks Research has given an average broker rating of 3 to Amira Nature Foods Ltd (NYSE:ANFI)’s shares. Zacks assigns a simplified score in between one and five against the complex analysts’ ratings. A score towards 1-2 typically means a consensus Buy, 3 signifies a Hold recommendation and a rating of 4-5 echoes Sell opinion. The stock was given an ABR of 3 by the analysts three months ago.

The brokerage firms have also provided short and long term price targets as well as earnings estimates for the Amira Nature Foods Ltd. The analysts have projected $8 price target for the stock for the next 12-months. The loftiest expectations have set the price target as $8. On the other hand, the most bearish price estimates are pegged at $8.

Earnings Expectations

As per the most recent information, Amira Nature Foods Ltd (NYSE:ANFI) is expected to publish its quarterly earnings for the period ended 2015-12-31 around 2016-03-07. Ahead of the earnings, the brokerage firms are eyeing earnings per share of $N/A for the quarter. The estimates are provided by Zacks research, which may slightly differ from the estimates given by the Reuters’ First Call. It should be noted that a company’s EPS is the most significant number to look for during its earnings release. If the number widely differs from the consensus view, then the impact of such variation is immediately reflective in the company’s stock prices following the financial report. In the last quarter, Amira Nature Foods Ltd’s reported earnings came $N/A off the market consensus, leading to a surprise factor of N/A%.

Alpha One sentiment analysis can be considered to gauge the stock’s immediate stock sentiment. The firm’s sentiment analytics utilizes the daily stock related news reports and articles to establish crowd sentiment and ascertains the degree to which news can positively or negatively affect a stock by measuring it on a scale of -1 to 1. Based on such scale, Amira Nature Foods Ltd’s sentiment score for the day sits at 0.31. In addition to the sentiment score, Alpha One also assigns daily impact score that measures the extent to which a company news on a given day will influence its stock price by more than 1%. This impact is scored on a scale of 1-100, where a score towards 100 signifies that the news is highly impactful. As on 2016-01-01, the company’s stock had an impact score of 0.