NASDAQ:FRTA - Forterra Stock Price, Forecast & News

Forterra trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FRTA."

Forterra Inc (NASDAQ:FRTA) issued its earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The construction company reported $0.35 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.12 by $0.23. The construction company had revenue of $464.50 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $439.68 million. Forterra had a negative net margin of 1.10% and a negative return on equity of 15.65%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 6.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.09 EPS. View Forterra's Earnings History.

6 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Forterra's shares. Their forecasts range from $5.50 to $16.00. On average, they anticipate Forterra's stock price to reach $11.71 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Forterra.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Forterra in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Forterra.

Media coverage about FRTA stock has been trending positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Forterra earned a daily sentiment score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Forterra.

Forterra saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,310,000 shares, a drop of 13.1% from the December 31st total of 3,810,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 351,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.4 days. Currently, 18.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Forterra's Current Options Chain.

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(FRTA) raised $368 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, October 20th 2016. The company issued 18,400,000 shares at a price of $19.00-$21.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities and RBC Capital Markets served as the underwriters for the IPO and Oppenheimer, Stephens and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey were co-managers.

Forterra's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Royce & Associates LP (2.78%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.94%), State Street Corp (0.54%), Marshall Wace LLP (0.43%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.30%) and Bank of America Corp DE (0.29%). Company insiders that own Forterra stock include Charles Rodney Brown, Clinton D Mcdonnough, Jeff Bradley, Karl Watson, Lori M Browne and Vikrant Bhatia. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Forterra.

FRTA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Royce & Associates LP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Valeo Financial Advisors LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Forterra.

FRTA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Geode Capital Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Bank of America Corp DE, Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., EAM Global Investors LLC and EAM Investors LLC. Company insiders that have bought Forterra stock in the last two years include Charles Rodney Brown, Clinton D Mcdonnough, Jeff Bradley, Karl Watson, Lori M Browne and Vikrant Bhatia. View Insider Buying and Selling for Forterra.

Shares of FRTA 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.

One share of FRTA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.26.

Forterra has a market capitalization of $922.91 million and generates $1.48 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $-24,360,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.44) on an earnings per share basis. Forterra employs 4,672 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Forterra.

The official website for Forterra is http://www.forterrabp.com/.

Forterra's mailing address is 511 E. JOHN CARPENTER FREEWAY 6TH FLOOR, IRVING TX, 75062. The construction company can be reached via phone at 469-458-7973 or via email at [email protected]