Benzinga · Oct 16, 2026
Barclays Maintains Overweight on Post Holdings, Lowers Price Target to $88
Barclays analyst Andrew Lazar maintains Post Holdings (NYSE:POST) with a Overweight and lowers the price target from $95 to $88.
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NYSE · POST
Post Holdings, Inc.
Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods
$78.26
Up+$0.84 (+1.08%)
Updated Oct 21, 2026, 8:43 AM
SID Score
4.7/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
58/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 5.47B
- P/E ratio
- 15.73
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- 52-week range
- $71.45 – $117.28
- Volume
- 494.86K
- Avg. volume
- 855.1K
Price performance · POST
POST price history
1M range · 21 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Oct 20, 2026
POST closed at $78.26 after 21 trading sessions, up 3.01% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $78.26
- Period change
- +3.01%
- Period low
- $72.54
- Period high
- $78.53
Daily close
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| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026 | $78.40 | $79.45 | $78.07 | $78.26 | 494.86K |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $77.74 | $78.46 | $76.01 | $77.42 | 641.69K |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $78.02 | $79.415 | $77.235 | $78.53 | 679.29K |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $78.175 | $80.67 | $77.16 | $77.39 | 628.55K |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $77.73 | $78.26 | $76.86 | $77.66 | 572.12K |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $77.50 | $78.09 | $76.29 | $76.94 | 544.52K |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $75.03 | $77.2199 | $74.80 | $76.83 | 667.55K |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $73.98 | $75.32 | $73.52 | $74.82 | 585.06K |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $72.95 | $74.31 | $72.62 | $74.23 | 591.03K |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $73.44 | $73.44 | $71.57 | $72.54 | 777.83K |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $73.15 | $74.02 | $72.86 | $73.32 | 564.92K |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $72.44 | $73.47 | $72.11 | $72.68 | 875.32K |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $72.83 | $73.6001 | $72.21 | $72.56 | 727.77K |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $72.49 | $73.03 | $71.45 | $72.83 | 698.97K |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $73.53 | $73.76 | $72.65 | $72.85 | 788.7K |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $73.96 | $75.11 | $72.67 | $73.43 | 796.06K |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $72.85 | $75.22 | $72.52 | $74.87 | 829.17K |
| Sep 25, 2026 | $74.09 | $74.11 | $72.74 | $73.15 | 723.17K |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $76.03 | $76.44 | $74.13 | $74.14 | 665.77K |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $76.09 | $76.39 | $75.35 | $75.81 | 790.48K |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $75.61 | $76.90 | $74.89 | $75.97 | 1.18M |
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Post Holdings Inc. is a consumer packaged goods holding company with products sold through grocery, club, and drug stores, mass merchandisers, foodservice, food ingredient, and eCommerce. It operates through four reportable segments: Post Consumer Brands, focused on North American ready-to-eat cereal and granola, pet food, and nut butters; Weetabix, focused on U.K. ready-to-eat cereal, muesli, and protein-based shakes; Foodservice, focused on egg and potato products; and Refrigerated Retail, focused on side dish, egg, cheese, and sausage products. Products are sold across channels, including retailers, wholesalers, convenience stores, pet supply retailers, drug store customers, military and national restaurant chains, with revenues largely generated in the U.S.
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- Average target
- $120.20
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| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | Barclays | Overweight | — |
| Oct 15, 2026 | Stifel | Buy | — |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Wells Fargo | Equal-Weight | — |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Barclays | Overweight | — |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Evercore ISI Group | Outperform | — |
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Benzinga · Oct 15, 2026
Stifel Maintains Buy on Post Holdings, Lowers Price Target to $100
Stifel analyst Matthew Smith maintains Post Holdings (NYSE:POST) with a Buy and lowers the price target from $125 to $100.
Benzinga · Oct 5, 2026
Wells Fargo Maintains Equal-Weight on Post Holdings, Lowers Price Target to $79
Wells Fargo analyst Marc Torrente maintains Post Holdings (NYSE:POST) with a Equal-Weight and lowers the price target from $86 to $79.
Yahoo · Sep 14, 2026
Post Holdings (POST), Why Is The Stock Back In Focus?
Post Holdings (POST) has been drawing attention after a sustained slide in performance, with the shares down 19.5% year to date and 21.7% over the past year, prompting fresh questions about valuation. Recent trading has been weak, with the share price slipping 5.3% over the past week and 13.2% over the last 90 days. This extends a fading momentum pattern that leaves Post Holdings with a 1-year total shareholder return down 21.7% despite a positive 5-year total shareholder return of...
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