NYSE:AZZAZZ Stock Price, Forecast & News

AZZ's stock was trading at $29.86 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, AZZ stock has increased by 25.7% and is now trading at $37.53. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AZZ in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for AZZ.

AZZ is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for AZZ.

AZZ Inc (NYSE:AZZ) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The industrial products company reported $0.47 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.50 by $0.03. The industrial products company had revenue of $245.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $225.06 million. AZZ had a net margin of 4.54% and a return on equity of 11.21%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 21.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.34 EPS. View AZZ's earnings history.

AZZ declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 22nd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 7th will be given a dividend of $0.17 per share on Thursday, May 21st. This represents a $0.68 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 6th. View AZZ's dividend history.

1 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for AZZ's shares. Their forecasts range from $48.00 to $48.00. On average, they anticipate AZZ's share price to reach $48.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.9% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for AZZ.

News headlines about AZZ stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. AZZ earned a coverage optimism score of 2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutAZZ.

AZZ saw a decrease in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 222,300 shares, a decrease of 35.3% from the April 30th total of 343,700 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 183,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.2 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's shares are short sold. View AZZ's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AZZ investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Primo Water (PRMW), AT&T (T), Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Alibaba Group (BABA), Carnival (CCL) and Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ).

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

AZZ's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.50%), Van Berkom & Associates Inc. (6.53%), State Street Corp (3.28%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.68%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.68%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (2.41%). Company insiders that own AZZ stock include Daniel R Feehan, Kevern R Joyce, Matthew Varley Emery, Paul Wesley Fehlman and Thomas E Ferguson. View institutional ownership trends for AZZ.

AZZ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wellington Management Group LLP, Deutsche Bank AG, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo & Company MN, and Dupont Capital Management Corp. View insider buying and selling activity for AZZ.

AZZ stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Van Berkom & Associates Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Gamco Investors INC. ET AL, Aristotle Capital Boston LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and State Street Corp. Company insiders that have bought AZZ stock in the last two years include Paul Wesley Fehlman, and Thomas E Ferguson. View insider buying and selling activity for AZZ.

Shares of AZZ 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 AZZ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.53.

AZZ has a market capitalization of $981.78 million and generates $1.06 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $48.23 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.71 on an earnings per share basis. AZZ employs 4,343 workers across the globe.

The official website for AZZ is www.azz.com.

AZZ's mailing address is ONE MUSEUM PLACE SUITE 500 3100 W 7TH STREET, FORT WORTH TX, 76107. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 817-810-0095.