The Eastern Company designs, manufactures, and sells industrial hardware, security products, and metal products in the United States and internationally. The company's Industrial Hardware segment offers passenger restraint and vehicular locks, latches, hinges, mirrors, mirror-cameras, light-weight sleeper boxes, and truck bodies for tractor-trailer trucks, specialty commercial vehicles, recreational vehicles, fire and rescue vehicles, school buses, military vehicles, and other vehicles. This segment also provides fasteners and other closure devices. The company's Security Products segment offers engineered and standard closing and locking systems, including vehicular accessory locks, cabinet locks, cam locks, electric switch locks, tubular key locks, and combination. Its products also include timers, drop meters, coin chutes, money boxes, meter cases, smart cards, value transfer stations, smart card readers, card management software, and access control units. In addition, this segment provides coin acceptors and other coin security products for the commercial laundry markets; and circuit boards and other electronic assemblies to various industries, including measurement systems, semiconductor equipment manufacturing, and industrial controls, medical, and military products. The company's Metal Products segment offers expansion shells to support the roofs of underground mines; and specialty malleable and ductile iron castings. This segment's products include mine roof support anchors, couplers for railroad braking systems, support anchoring for construction, and couplers/fittings for utility industries. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and sales representatives. The Eastern Company was founded in 1858 and is based in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Industry Cutlery, handtools, & general hardware
Sub-IndustryIndustrial Machinery
SectorIndustrial Products
Phone203-729-2255
Debt
Price-To-Earnings
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$234.28 million
Profitability
Miscellaneous
Employees1,327
Next Earnings Date2/25/2020 (Estimated)
OptionableNot Optionable
Eastern (NASDAQ:EML) Frequently Asked Questions
What is Eastern's stock symbol?
Eastern trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EML."
How often does Eastern pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Eastern?
Eastern declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 1st. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.11 per share on Monday, December 16th. This represents a $0.44 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.54%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 15th. View Eastern's Dividend History.
How were Eastern's earnings last quarter?
Eastern Co (NASDAQ:EML) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 8th. The industrial products company reported $0.40 earnings per share for the quarter. The industrial products company had revenue of $61.44 million for the quarter. Eastern had a net margin of 5.18% and a return on equity of 12.54%. View Eastern's Earnings History.
When is Eastern's next earnings date?
Has Eastern been receiving favorable news coverage?
Media headlines about EML stock have trended very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Eastern earned a media sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Eastern.
Who are some of Eastern's key competitors?
Some companies that are related to Eastern include Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Parker-Hannifin (PH), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK), Dover (DOV), Xylem (XYL), IDEX (IEX), Nordson (NDSN), Snap-on (SNA), Graco (GGG), Pentair (PNR), Donaldson (DCI), Middleby (MIDD), Woodward, Inc.Common Stock (WWD) and Gardner Denver (GDI).
What other stocks do shareholders of Eastern own?
Who are Eastern's key executives?
Eastern's management team includes the folowing people:
- Mr. August M. Vlak, Pres, CEO & Director (Age 52)
- Mr. John L. Sullivan III, VP & CFO (Age 66)
- Christopher Moulton, Head of Corp. Devel. & Investor Relations
- Ms. Theresa P. Dews, Sec.
- Mr. Gene A. Finelli, Treasurer
Who are Eastern's major shareholders?
Eastern's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (9.04%), North Star Investment Management Corp. (1.87%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.33%), Cardinal Capital Management (0.31%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.14%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.09%). Company insiders that own Eastern stock include August M Vlak, Frederick D Disanto and Peggy Scott. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Eastern.
Which major investors are selling Eastern stock?
Which major investors are buying Eastern stock?
EML stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., North Star Investment Management Corp., California Public Employees Retirement System, Rhumbline Advisers and Cardinal Capital Management. Company insiders that have bought Eastern stock in the last two years include August M Vlak, Frederick D Disanto and Peggy Scott. View Insider Buying and Selling for Eastern.
How do I buy shares of Eastern?
Shares of EML can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.
What is Eastern's stock price today?
One share of EML stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.57.
How big of a company is Eastern?
What is Eastern's official website?
How can I contact Eastern?
Eastern's mailing address is 112 BRIDGE ST, NAUGATUCK CT, 06770. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 203-729-2255 or via email at [email protected]
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