Hawkins - HWKN Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hawkins in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" HWKN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HWKN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Hawkins' shares. Their HWKN share price forecasts range from $10,000,000.00 to $0.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $0.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 100.0%.
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Hawkins' stock was trading at $38.60 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, HWKN shares have increased by 11.0% and is now trading at $42.83.
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Hawkins saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 148,800 shares, a drop of 6.0% from the December 31st total of 158,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 54,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.7 days. Currently, 0.8% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 17th 2023.
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Hawkins, Inc. (NASDAQ:HWKN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.67 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.79 by $0.12. The specialty chemicals company earned $183.28 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $176.32 million. Hawkins had a net margin of 6.51% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.88%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.57 EPS.

Hawkins announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 2nd. Investors of record on Friday, November 18th will be given a dividend of $0.14 per share on Friday, December 2nd. This represents a $0.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.31%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 17th.
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Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.44%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 18 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 20.14%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HWKN will have a dividend payout ratio of 20.90% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Hawkins shares split before market open on Tuesday, March 2nd 2021. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 28th 2021. The newly minted shares were distributed 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.

22 employees have rated Hawkins Chief Executive Officer Patrick H. Hawkins on Glassdoor.com. Patrick H. Hawkins has an approval rating of 83% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Hawkins investors own include CA (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Accenture (ACN), NN (NNBR) and Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK).

Hawkins trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HWKN."

Hawkins' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.00%), NorthRock Partners LLC (0.15%), Yousif Capital Management LLC (0.07%), Wesbanco Bank Inc. (0.06%), Comerica Bank (0.05%) and Annex Advisory Services LLC (0.05%).
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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 WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of HWKN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $42.83.

Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) has a market capitalization of $900.29 million and generates $774.54 million in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $51.54 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.78 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 742 workers across the globe.

Hawkins' mailing address is 2381 ROSEGATE, ROSEVILLE MN, 55113. The official website for the company is www.hawkinsinc.com. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at (612) 331-6910, via email at ir@hawkinsinc.com, or via fax at 612-331-5304.