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Hawkins (HWKN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

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$132.56 -1.45 (-1.08%)
As of 01:42 PM Eastern
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About Hawkins Stock (NASDAQ:HWKN)

Key Stats

Today's Range
$130.74
$135.00
50-Day Range
$103.32
$134.01
52-Week Range
$83.88
$139.55
Volume
50,287 shs
Average Volume
124,856 shs
Market Capitalization
$2.76 billion
P/E Ratio
33.82
Dividend Yield
0.54%
Price Target
$142.50
Consensus Rating
Buy

Company Overview

Hawkins, Inc. operates as a specialty chemical and ingredients company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Industrial, Water Treatment, and Health and Nutrition. The Industrial segment offers industrial chemicals, products, and services to agriculture, chemical processing, electronics, energy, food, pharmaceutical, and plating industries. This segment manufactures sodium hypochlorite and agricultural products, as well as various food-grade and pharmaceutical products, such as liquid phosphates, lactates, other blended products, and agricultural products; and receives, stores, and distributes various chemicals comprising liquid caustic soda, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, urea, phosphoric acid, aqua ammonia, and potassium hydroxide. It also repackages water treatment chemicals and bulk industrial chemicals; and performs custom blending of chemicals. The Water Treatment segment provides chemicals, products, equipment, services, and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water, non-residential swimming pool water, and agriculture water. The Health and Nutrition segment offers ingredient distribution, processing, and formulation solutions to manufacturers of nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, personal care, dietary supplement and other nutritional food, and health and wellness products. Its products portfolio includes minerals, vitamins and amino acids, excipients, joint products, botanicals and herbs, sweeteners, and enzymes. Hawkins, Inc. was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Roseville, Minnesota.

Hawkins Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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67th Percentile Overall Score

HWKN MarketRank™: 

Hawkins scored higher than 67% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 91st out of 188 stocks in the basic materials sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    Hawkins has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on 2 buy ratings, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    Hawkins has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about Hawkins' stock forecast and price target.
  • Earnings Growth

    Earnings for Hawkins are expected to grow by 6.50% in the coming year, from $4.00 to $4.26 per share.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of Hawkins is 33.82, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 24.30.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of Hawkins is 33.82, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Basic Materials sector average P/E ratio of about 66.95.

  • Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

    Hawkins has a PEG Ratio of 3.80. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    Hawkins has a P/B Ratio of 6.07. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Read more about Hawkins' valuation and earnings.
  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    3.63% of the float of Hawkins has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    Hawkins has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 5.9.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in Hawkins has recently decreased by 9.19%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.
  • Dividend Yield

    Hawkins has a dividend yield of 0.57%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

  • Dividend Growth

    Hawkins has been increasing its dividend for 20 years.

  • Dividend Coverage

    The dividend payout ratio of Hawkins is 17.82%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

  • Dividend Sustainability

    Based on earnings estimates, Hawkins will have a dividend payout ratio of 16.90% next year. This indicates that Hawkins will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

  • Read more about Hawkins' dividend.
  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    3.63% of the float of Hawkins has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    Hawkins has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 5.9.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in Hawkins has recently decreased by 9.19%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly.
  • News Sentiment

    Hawkins has a news sentiment score of 0.70. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.52 average news sentiment score of Basic Materials companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 9 news articles for Hawkins this week, compared to 9 articles on an average week.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, Hawkins insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    Only 3.80% of the stock of Hawkins is held by insiders.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    69.71% of the stock of Hawkins is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

  • Read more about Hawkins' insider trading history.
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HWKN Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

Hawkins' stock was trading at $122.67 on January 1st, 2025. Since then, HWKN shares have increased by 8.1% and is now trading at $132.5650.
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Hawkins, Inc. (NASDAQ:HWKN) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 14th. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.78 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.74 by $0.04. The specialty chemicals company earned $245.32 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $230.69 million. Hawkins had a net margin of 8.60% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.95%.

Shares of Hawkins split on Tuesday, March 2nd 2021. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 28th 2021. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, March 1st 2021. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

The following companies are subsidiaries of Hawkins: NAPCO Chemical Company, Water and Waste Specialties, Southeast Water Systems LLC, C & L Aqua Professionals Inc, LC Blending Inc., American Development Corporation of Tennessee Inc., Stauber Performance Ingredients, and others.

Hawkins' top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (6.96%), Westwood Holdings Group Inc. (2.86%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (1.68%) and Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (1.51%).
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Shares of HWKN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Hawkins investors own include Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Athabasca Oil (ATH), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW).

Company Calendar

Record date for 2/28 Dividend
2/14/2025
Ex-Dividend for 2/28 Dividend
2/14/2025
Dividend Payable
2/28/2025
Last Earnings
5/14/2025
Today
5/29/2025
Record date for 6/13 Dividend
5/30/2025
Ex-Dividend for 6/13 Dividend
5/30/2025
Dividend Payable
6/13/2025
Next Earnings (Estimated)
7/30/2025
Fiscal Year End
3/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Stock Exchange
NASDAQ
Industry
Chemicals & allied products
Sub-Industry
Commodity Chemicals
Current Symbol
NASDAQ:HWKN
Employees
810
Year Founded
1938

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Target
$142.50
High Stock Price Target
$160.00
Low Stock Price Target
$125.00
Potential Upside/Downside
+6.0%
Consensus Rating
Buy
Rating Score (0-4)
3.00
Research Coverage
2 Analysts

Profitability

Trailing P/E Ratio
34.13
Forward P/E Ratio
33.61
P/E Growth
3.8
Net Income
$75.36 million
Pretax Margin
11.69%

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
$974.43 million
Cash Flow
$6.47 per share
Price / Cash Flow
20.77
Book Value
$21.83 per share
Price / Book
6.16

Miscellaneous

Free Float
20,134,000
Market Cap
$2.80 billion
Optionable
Optionable
Beta
0.87

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This page (NASDAQ:HWKN) was last updated on 5/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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