Actuant Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:ATU)

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

Actuant announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, July 30th. Shareholders 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 of this dividend is Thursday, September 26th. View Actuant's Dividend History.

Actuant Co. (NYSE:ATU) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, September, 26th. The industrial products company reported $0.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The industrial products company earned $158.32 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $168.57 million. Actuant had a negative net margin of 24.47% and a positive return on equity of 13.49%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.39 EPS. 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 updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, September, 26th. The company provided 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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Actuant's shares. Their forecasts range from $0.75 to $29.00. On average, they expect Actuant's stock price to reach $20.53 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.3%. 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 articles about ATU stock have trended somewhat negative on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news 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. Actuant earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.23%), Comerica Bank (0.34%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.21%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.12%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.07%). 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, Comerica Bank, Russell Investments Group Ltd., State of Tennessee Treasury Department, First Trust Advisors LP, Texas Permanent School Fund, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Mason Street Advisors LLC. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, BBVA USA Bancshares Inc., Tibra Equities Europe Ltd, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, California Public Employees Retirement System, Zeke Capital Advisors LLC and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank. 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 $20.79.

Actuant has a market capitalization of $1.28 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]