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 4.8% and is now trading at $31.28. 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) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April, 29th. The industrial products company reported $0.47 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate 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 return on equity of 11.21% and a net margin of 4.54%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 21.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.34 earnings per share. View AZZ's earnings history.

AZZ announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 22nd. Investors 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.17%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 6th. View AZZ's dividend history.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for AZZ's stock. Their forecasts range from $48.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect AZZ's share price to reach $48.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 53.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for AZZ.

Media stories about AZZ stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of press 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. AZZ earned a media sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutAZZ.

AZZ saw a drop in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 222,300 shares, a drop 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 currently 1.2 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View AZZ's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to AZZ include LSI Industries (LYTS), Orion Energy Systems (OESX), Energy Focus (EFOI), Capstone Companies (CAPC), Revolution Lighting Technologies (RVLT), ExeLED (ELED) and Lighting Science Group (LSCG). View all competitors.

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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (15.50%), State Street Corp (3.28%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.68%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.68%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (2.41%) and Aristotle Capital Boston LLC (1.64%). 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, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Dupont Capital Management Corp, and Citigroup Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for AZZ.

AZZ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Gamco Investors INC. ET AL, Aristotle Capital Boston LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., JPMorgan Chase & Co., State Street Corp, and Ziegler Capital Management LLC. 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 $31.28.

AZZ has a market capitalization of $817.91 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.