AZZ - AZZ Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AZZ in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" AZZ shares.
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2 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for AZZ's shares. Their AZZ share price forecasts range from $48.00 to $49.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $48.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.2% from the stock's current price.
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AZZ's stock was trading at $40.20 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AZZ shares have increased by 0.4% and is now trading at $40.35.
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AZZ saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 410,200 shares, a drop of 19.6% from the February 28th total of 509,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 118,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.5 days. Currently, 1.7% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 28th 2023.
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AZZ Inc. (NYSE:AZZ) posted its earnings results on Monday, January, 9th. The industrial products company reported $0.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.93 by $0.05. The industrial products company had revenue of $373.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $359.80 million. AZZ had a negative net margin of 2.46% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.04%. The business's revenue was up 176.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.85 EPS.

AZZ announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 19th. Shareholders of record on Monday, January 30th will be given a dividend of $0.17 per share on Tuesday, February 7th. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.69%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 27th.
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AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.75%.
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AZZ updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.05-$4.25 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.10. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.27 billion-$1.35 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.33 billion.

30 employees have rated AZZ Chief Executive Officer Tom Ferguson on Glassdoor.com. Tom Ferguson has an approval rating of 41% among the company's employees. This puts Tom Ferguson in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AZZ investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), Energy Transfer (ET), Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), Bausch Health Companies (BHC), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), F5 (FFIV), Las Vegas Sands (LVS) and Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX).

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

AZZ's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (9.97%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.08%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (2.62%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (2.62%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.82%) and Aristotle Capital Boston LLC (1.66%). Insiders that own company stock include Bryan Lee Stovall, Gary L Hill, Ken Lavelle, Kurt L Russell, Tara D Mackey and Thomas E Ferguson.
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Shares of AZZ stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of AZZ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.35.

AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) has a market capitalization of $1.00 billion and generates $902.66 million in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $84.02 million in net income (profit) each year or ($1.05) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 3,885 workers across the globe.

AZZ's mailing address is ONE MUSEUM PLACE SUITE 500 3100 W 7TH STREET, FORT WORTH TX, 76107. The official website for the company is www.azz.com. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at (817) 810-0095, via email at davidnark@azz.com, or via fax at 817-336-5354.