NYSE:AWI - Armstrong World Industries Stock Price, Forecast & News

Armstrong World Industries trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AWI."

Armstrong World Industries announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 19th. Investors of record on Thursday, March 5th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, March 20th. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.76%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 4th. View Armstrong World Industries' Dividend History.

Armstrong World Industries Inc (NYSE:AWI) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 24th. The construction company reported $1.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.86 by $0.25. The construction company earned $246.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $255.35 million. Armstrong World Industries had a net margin of 19.55% and a return on equity of 78.13%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 3.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.80 EPS. View Armstrong World Industries' Earnings History.

Armstrong World Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Armstrong World Industries.

Armstrong World Industries updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, February, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.1-1.121 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.11 billion.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Armstrong World Industries' stock. Their forecasts range from $73.05 to $120.00. On average, they expect Armstrong World Industries' stock price to reach $101.81 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Armstrong World Industries.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Armstrong World Industries in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Armstrong World Industries.

News coverage about AWI stock has trended somewhat positive on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Armstrong World Industries earned a daily sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Armstrong World Industries.

Armstrong World Industries saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,300,000 shares, a decrease of 11.6% from the December 31st total of 1,470,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 382,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.4 days. Approximately 2.7% of the company's stock are short sold. View Armstrong World Industries' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Armstrong World Industries include Masco (MAS), Fortune Brands Home & Security (FBHS), Lennox International (LII), A. O. Smith (AOS), Owens Corning (OC), Trex (TREX), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), Universal Forest Products (UFPI), Builders FirstSource (BLDR), AAON (AAON), American Woodmark (AMWD), Gibraltar Industries (ROCK), Patrick Industries (PATK), PGT Innovations (PGTI) and Griffon (GFF).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Armstrong World Industries investors own include Armstrong Flooring (AFI), Comcast (CMCSA), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), Altria Group (MO), AT&T (T), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Adobe (ADBE), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Intel (INTC) and Cummins (CMI).

Armstrong World Industries' stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Capital International Investors (8.28%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.69%), Cantillon Capital Management LLC (2.62%), FMR LLC (2.40%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.79%) and State Street Corp (1.67%). Company insiders that own Armstrong World Industries stock include David S Cookson, Ellen R Romano, Holdings LP Valueact, Mark A Hershey, Stephen F Mcnamara and Valueact Capital Master Fund,. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Armstrong World Industries.

AWI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., AQR Capital Management LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Chicago Equity Partners LLC and Renaissance Technologies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Armstrong World Industries company stock in the last year include Ellen R Romano, Holdings LP Valueact, Stephen F Mcnamara and Valueact Capital Master Fund,. View Insider Buying and Selling for Armstrong World Industries.

AWI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Point72 Asset Management L.P., Capital International Investors, Jennison Associates LLC, FIL Ltd, River Road Asset Management LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for Armstrong World Industries.

Shares of AWI 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 AWI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $105.59.

Armstrong World Industries has a market capitalization of $5.12 billion and generates $975.30 million in revenue each year. The construction company earns $185.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.66 on an earnings per share basis. Armstrong World Industries employs 4,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Armstrong World Industries.

The official website for Armstrong World Industries is http://www.armstrongceilings.com/.

Armstrong World Industries' mailing address is 2500 COLUMBIA AVE, LANCASTER PA, 17603. The construction company can be reached via phone at 717-397-0611 or via email at [email protected]