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, or maintain homes, such as hardware retailers, building-materials suppliers, and remodeling firms. For investors, these stocks offer exposure to home-renovation and maintenance spending, which can be influenced by housing-market conditions, consumer confidence, and interest rates. 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 traded down $0.66 on Wednesday, reaching $350.34. 1,765,305 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 4,476,159. The stock's 50 day simple moving average is $310.35 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $333.77. The stock has a market cap of $349.53 billion, a PE ratio of 24.49, a PEG ratio of 2.51 and a beta of 0.93. Home Depot has a 52-week low of $277.15 and a 52-week high of $397.63. The company has a current ratio of 1.08, a quick ratio of 0.31 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.64.
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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.
NYSE:LOW traded down $1.36 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $230.51. The stock had a trading volume of 1,104,226 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,993,040. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $198.20 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $224.69. The stock has a market capitalization of $129.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.46, a P/E/G ratio of 1.94 and a beta of 0.81. Lowe's Companies has a one year low of $178.45 and a one year high of $293.06.
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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 Masco stock traded up $0.24 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $85.04. The company's stock had a trading volume of 545,640 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,571,348. The company has a quick ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 1.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 109.07. Masco has a 52-week low of $58.16 and a 52-week high of $87.86. The firm's 50-day moving average is $72.82 and its two-hundred day moving average is $71.38. The company has a market cap of $16.39 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.40, a PEG ratio of 1.90 and a beta of 1.21.
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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.
Shares of MFIN traded down $0.14 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $9.29. The company had a trading volume of 61,512 shares, compared to its average volume of 66,390. The firm has a market cap of $208.26 million, a P/E ratio of 8.36 and a beta of 0.80. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $11.46 and its 200 day moving average price is $10.28. The company has a quick ratio of 1.22, a current ratio of 1.23 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.52. Medallion Financial has a 52-week low of $7.85 and a 52-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.
JCTC stock traded down $0.04 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $2.85. The company had a trading volume of 450 shares, compared to its average volume of 21,303. The stock has a market cap of $10.05 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -1.21 and a beta of 0.46. Jewett-Cameron Trading has a 52 week low of $1.54 and a 52 week high of $3.32. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $2.90 and its 200 day moving average price is $2.35.
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