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QSR - Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Price:
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CONSENSUS:
Buy
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PRICE TARGET:
$84.80
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HIGH:
$92.00
LOW:
$79.00
MEDIAN:
$85.50
CONSENSUS:
$84.80
UPSIDE:
19.52%
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Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSE: QSR - Get Free Report) (NYSE: QSR)'s share price passed below its fifty day moving average during trading on Thursday. The stock has a fifty day moving average of C$105.86 and traded as low as C$100.20. Restaurant Brands International shares last traded at C$100.28, with a volume of 1,879,623 shares trading hands.
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Price Targets
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $86 from $85 at Guggenheim
$86.00
(was $73.29)
Guggenheim
Restaurant Brands initiated with a Buy at Seaport Research
$88.00
(was $75.51)
Eric Gonzalez
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Seaport Global
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $80 from $76 at BofA
$80.00
(was $72.78)
C.L. King
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $88 from $86 at Evercore ISI
$88.00
(was $73.22)
David Palmer
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Evercore ISI
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $79 from $78 at Morgan Stanley
$79.00
(was $74.61)
Brian Harbour
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Morgan Stanley
Restaurant Brands price target lowered to $85 from $86 at Deutsche Bank
$85.00
(was $74.08)
Lauren Silberman
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Deutsche Bank
Restaurant Brands International (QSR) PT Raised to $85 at Guggenheim
$85.00
(was $75.38)
Gregory Francfort
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Guggenheim
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $81 from $74 at BofA
$81.00
(was $77.67)
C.L. King
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $80 from $75 at Wells Fargo
$80.00
(was $76.76)
Wells Fargo
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $86 from $84 at Deutsche Bank
$86.00
(was $76.75)
Deutsche Bank
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $80 from $72 at Baird
$80.00
(was $77.17)
Robert W. Baird
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $92 from $85 at Barclays
$92.00
(was $77.17)
Barclays
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $90 from $83 at RBC Capital
$90.00
(was $78.92)
RBC Capital
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $84 from $82 at Deutsche Bank
$84.00
(was $79.14)
Deutsche Bank
Stifel Upgrades Restaurant Brands International (QSR) to Buy
$90.00
(was $71.71)
Chris O\'Cull
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Stifel Nicolaus
Piper Sandler Upgrades Restaurant Brands International (QSR) to Overweight
$84.00
(was $71.71)
Brian Mullan
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Piper Sandler
Restaurant Brands price target lowered to $71 from $74 at Scotiabank
$71.00
(was $66.44)
Scotiabank
Restaurant Brands price target lowered to $82 from $86 at Barclays
$82.00
(was $66.35)
Jeffrey Bernstein
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Bernstein
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $86 from $78 at Barclays
$86.00
(was $67.68)
Jeffrey Bernstein
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Bernstein
Restaurant Brands price target raised to $82 from $77 at RBC Capital
$82.00
(was $72.11)
RBC Capital