Best Home Improvement Stocks To Watch Now - November 15th

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s screener highlighted home-improvement stocks with high recent dollar trading volume, including Home Depot, Lowe’s, Masco, Medallion Financial and Jewett-Cameron Trading. The sector’s performance can be influenced by housing activity, consumer spending, interest rates and renovation demand.
• In Friday trading, Home Depot rose to $348.81 and Lowe’s to $227.72. Both had recently been reported at 52-week lows, though the article notes analysts remain positive on their prospects.
• Other stocks covered also gained Friday: Masco traded at $84.72, Medallion Financial at $9.49 and Jewett-Cameron Trading at $2.90.

Home Depot, Lowe's Companies, Masco, Medallion Financial, and Jewett-Cameron Trading are the seven Home Improvement stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Home improvement stocks are shares of companies that sell products or services for renovating, repairing, or maintaining homes, such as hardware retailers, building-materials manufacturers, and home-services providers. For investors, their performance can depend on housing activity, consumer spending, interest rates, and homeowners’ willingness to undertake renovation projects. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Home Improvement stocks within the last several days.

Home Depot (HD)

The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and internationally. It sells various building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and décor products, as well as facilities maintenance, repair, and operations products. The company also offers installation services for flooring, water heaters, bath, garage doors, cabinets, cabinet makeovers, countertops, sheds, furnaces and central air systems, and windows.

Shares of HD stock traded up $0.56 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $348.81. The company had a trading volume of 4,471,422 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,540,256. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.64, a quick ratio of 0.31 and a current ratio of 1.08. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $312.19 and a 200-day moving average of $333.26. The company has a market capitalization of $348.01 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.41, a PEG ratio of 2.58 and a beta of 0.93. Home Depot has a 12-month low of $277.15 and a 12-month high of $397.63.

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Lowe's Companies (LOW)

Lowe's Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States. The company offers a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. It also provides home improvement products, such as appliances, seasonal and outdoor living, lawn and garden, lumber, kitchens and bath, tools, paint, millwork, hardware, flooring, rough plumbing, building materials, décor, and electrical.

Shares of NYSE:LOW traded up $0.27 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $227.72. The company had a trading volume of 3,200,505 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,414,212. Lowe's Companies has a twelve month low of $178.45 and a twelve month high of $293.06. The stock has a market cap of $127.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.95 and a beta of 0.81. The business's 50-day simple moving average is $199.90 and its 200-day simple moving average is $223.99.

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Masco (MAS)

Masco Corporation designs, manufactures, and distributes home improvement and building products in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company's Plumbing Products segment offers faucets, showerheads, handheld showers, valves, bath hardware and accessories, bathing units, shower bases and enclosures, sinks, toilets, acrylic tubs, shower trays, spas, exercise pools, and fitness systems; brass, copper, and composite plumbing system components; connected water products; thermoplastic solutions, extruded plastic profiles, specialized fabrications, and PEX tubing products; and other non-decorative plumbing products.

Masco stock traded up $0.24 during trading on Friday, reaching $84.72. 1,536,600 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,450,130. Masco has a 52-week low of $58.16 and a 52-week high of $87.86. The company has a market capitalization of $16.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.34, a PEG ratio of 1.87 and a beta of 1.21. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 109.07, a current ratio of 1.83 and a quick ratio of 1.20. The stock's 50 day simple moving average is $73.65 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $71.62.

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Medallion Financial (MFIN)

Medallion Financial Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. It operates in four segments: Recreation Lending, Home Improvement Lending, Commercial Lending, and Taxi Medallion Lending. The company offers loans that finance consumer purchases of recreational vehicles, boats, and other consumer recreational equipment; consumer financing for window, siding, and roof replacement, swimming pool installations, and other home improvement projects; senior and subordinated loans for the purchase of equipment and related assets necessary to open a new business, or purchase or improvement of an existing business; and taxi medallion loans to individuals and small to mid-size businesses.

NASDAQ MFIN traded up $0.15 on Friday, reaching $9.49. 67,024 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 60,771. The company has a current ratio of 1.23, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.52. The business's fifty day moving average price is $11.31 and its 200 day moving average price is $10.27. The stock has a market capitalization of $212.86 million, a P/E ratio of 8.55 and a beta of 0.80. Medallion Financial has a fifty-two week low of $7.85 and a fifty-two week high of $12.26.

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Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTC)

Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd. is a supplier of `Value-added` building materials to major home improvement center chains in the western United States. The Company concentrates on the residential repair and remodeling segment of the building materials industry.

Shares of JCTC traded up $0.05 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $2.90. The company had a trading volume of 2,046 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,980. Jewett-Cameron Trading has a 1-year low of $1.54 and a 1-year high of $3.32. The stock has a market cap of $10.21 million, a PE ratio of -1.23 and a beta of 0.46. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $2.89 and a 200-day simple moving average of $2.36.

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