Astec Industries - ASTE Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Astec Industries in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" ASTE shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ASTE, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Astec Industries' shares. Their ASTE share price forecasts range from $40.00 to $40.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $40.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.5%.
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Astec Industries' stock was trading at $40.66 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, ASTE stock has increased by 9.9% and is now trading at $44.67.
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Astec Industries saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 220,800 shares, a drop of 22.7% from the December 31st total of 285,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 123,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.8 days. Currently, 1.0% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 1st 2023.
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Astec Industries will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, March 1st at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 647-362-9199 with passcode "8741406".

Astec Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTE) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 3rd. The industrial products company reported $0.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.31 by $0.19. The industrial products company earned $267 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $266.16 million. Astec Industries had a negative net margin of 0.70% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.01%. The company's revenue was up 15.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.20 earnings per share.

Astec Industries announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Investors of record on Monday, November 14th will be given a dividend of $0.13 per share on Friday, December 2nd. This represents a $0.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.16%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 10th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.12.
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Astec Industries (NASDAQ:ASTE) pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.14%.
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16 employees have rated Astec Industries Chief Executive Officer J. Don Brock on Glassdoor.com. J. Don Brock has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts J. Don Brock in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 52.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Astec Industries to a friend.

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Astec Industries trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ASTE."

Astec Industries' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Mesirow Institutional Investment Management Inc. (0.88%), Valicenti Advisory Services Inc. (0.28%), Roubaix Capital LLC (0.27%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.24%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.13%) and Yousif Capital Management LLC (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Matthew T Sr Litchfield Sr, Rebecca A Weyenberg and William Glenwood Dorey.
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One share of ASTE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.67.

Astec Industries (NASDAQ:ASTE) has a market capitalization of $1.01 billion and generates $1.10 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $17.80 million in net income (profit) each year or ($0.36) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,041 workers across the globe.

Astec Industries' mailing address is 1725 SHEPHERD ROAD, CHATTANOOGA TN, 37421. The official website for the company is www.astecindustries.com. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (423) 899-5898, via email at sanderson@astecindustries.com, or via fax at 423-899-4456.