Home Improvement Stocks To Consider - November 6th

Key Points

• Five home-improvement stocks highlighted: Home Depot, Lowe’s, Masco, Medallion Financial, and Jewett-Cameron Trading ranked among the sector’s highest-dollar-volume stocks in recent trading.
• Big retailers and supplier fell Friday: Home Depot closed at $343.43, down $6.51; Lowe’s at $225.29, down $1.95; and Masco at $82.29, down $1.54.
• The smaller stocks edged higher: Medallion Financial rose $0.13 to $10.05, while Jewett-Cameron Trading added $0.01 to $2.87. The sector’s performance can be affected by housing activity, homeowner spending, and borrowing costs.

Home Depot, Lowe's Companies, Masco, Medallion Financial, and Jewett-Cameron Trading are the five 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 used to renovate, repair, maintain, or furnish homes, such as home-improvement retailers, building-materials suppliers, and remodeling contractors. For investors, these stocks may be influenced by housing activity, homeowners’ spending, and borrowing costs. 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 NYSE HD traded down $6.51 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $343.43. 3,195,513 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,477,492. Home Depot has a 12 month low of $277.15 and a 12 month high of $397.63. The company has a quick ratio of 0.31, a current ratio of 1.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.64. The company has a market cap of $342.63 billion, a PE ratio of 24.00, a PEG ratio of 2.53 and a beta of 0.93. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $309.12 and a 200-day moving average price of $334.24.

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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 down $1.95 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $225.29. The company's stock had a trading volume of 1,480,915 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,994,106. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $196.82 and a 200 day moving average of $225.35. Lowe's Companies has a twelve month low of $178.45 and a twelve month high of $293.06. The firm has a market capitalization of $126.40 billion, a PE ratio of 19.03, a P/E/G ratio of 1.92 and a beta of 0.81.

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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.

Shares of MAS traded down $1.54 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $82.29. The company had a trading volume of 1,171,243 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,575,444. The stock has a market capitalization of $15.86 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.82, a PEG ratio of 1.92 and a beta of 1.21. Masco has a 52-week low of $58.16 and a 52-week high of $87.86. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $72.12 and a two-hundred day moving average of $71.15. The company has a quick ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 1.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 109.07.

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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 $0.13 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $10.05. 71,898 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 66,043. The business's 50 day moving average is $11.59 and its 200-day moving average is $10.28. The company has a market capitalization of $230.77 million, a P/E ratio of 9.05 and a beta of 0.80. Medallion Financial has a 1 year low of $7.85 and a 1 year high of $12.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.57, a quick ratio of 1.21 and a current ratio of 1.22.

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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.

JCTC traded up $0.01 during trading on Friday, hitting $2.87. The company's stock had a trading volume of 1,115 shares, compared to its average volume of 21,537. Jewett-Cameron Trading has a twelve month low of $1.54 and a twelve month high of $3.32. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $2.90 and its 200 day simple moving average is $2.33. The firm has a market capitalization of $10.08 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -1.22 and a beta of 0.46.

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