NYSE:ATU - Actuant Stock Price, Forecast & News

Actuant trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ATU."

Actuant declared an annual dividend on Tuesday, July 30th. Investors of record on Friday, September 27th will be paid a dividend of $0.04 per share on Monday, October 14th. This represents a yield of 0.17%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 26th. View Actuant's Dividend History.

Actuant Co. (NYSE:ATU) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, September, 26th. The industrial products company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The industrial products company had revenue of $158.32 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $168.57 million. Actuant had a positive return on equity of 13.49% and a negative net margin of 24.47%. The company's revenue was down 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.39 earnings per share. View Actuant's Earnings History.

Actuant is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, December 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Actuant.

Actuant issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, September, 26th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.68-0.81 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.93. The company issued revenue guidance of $575-600 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $682.10 million.

11 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Actuant's stock. Their forecasts range from $0.75 to $29.00. On average, they expect Actuant's share price to reach $20.53 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Actuant.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Actuant in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Actuant.

News coverage about ATU stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Actuant earned a daily sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Actuant.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Actuant investors own include JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Altaba (AABA), Celgene (CELG), General Electric (GE), QEP Resources (QEP), Vodafone Group (VOD), Balchem (BCPC), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), Citrix Systems (CTXS) and DISH Network (DISH).

Actuant's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (2.75%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.23%), Comerica Bank (0.34%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.21%), Millennium Management LLC (0.17%) and California State Teachers Retirement System (0.14%). Company insiders that own Actuant stock include Alfredo Altavilla, Deursen Holly Van, Roger Roundhouse and Ted Wozniak. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Actuant.

ATU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, State Street Corp, Voya Investment Management LLC, Barclays PLC, Comerica Bank, Russell Investments Group Ltd., State of Tennessee Treasury Department and First Trust Advisors LP. Company insiders that have sold Actuant company stock in the last year include Deursen Holly Van and Roger Roundhouse. View Insider Buying and Selling for Actuant.

ATU stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Millennium Management LLC, Squarepoint Ops LLC, BBVA USA Bancshares Inc., Tibra Equities Europe Ltd, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, California Public Employees Retirement System and Zeke Capital Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Actuant.

Shares of ATU 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 ATU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $24.82.

Actuant has a market capitalization of $1.53 billion and generates $654.76 million in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $-249,150,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.73 on an earnings per share basis. Actuant employs 5,300 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Actuant.

The official website for Actuant is http://www.actuant.com/.

Actuant's mailing address is N86 W12500 WESTBROOK CROSSING, MENOMONEE FALLS WI, 53051. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 262-293-1500 or via email at [email protected]