NYSE:AZZ - AZZ Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

AZZ announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 17th. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.17 per share on Tuesday, February 18th. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.53%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 31st. View AZZ's Dividend History.

AZZ Inc (NYSE:AZZ) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 9th. The industrial products company reported $0.84 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.84. The industrial products company had revenue of $291.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $271.31 million. AZZ had a return on equity of 10.79% and a net margin of 6.65%. AZZ's revenue was up 21.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.59 EPS. View AZZ's Earnings History.

AZZ is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 18th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for AZZ.

AZZ issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.60-2.90 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.79. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.02-1.06 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.03 billion.

Media coverage about AZZ stock has trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. AZZ earned a daily sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for AZZ.

AZZ saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 551,300 shares, an increase of 23.1% from the December 15th total of 448,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 181,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.0 days. Currently, 2.1% of the company's stock are sold short. 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).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AZZ investors own include Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Pattern Energy Group (PEGI), AbbVie (ABBV), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), AT&T (T), Timkensteel (TMST), Tapestry (TPR) and Twitter (TWTR).

AZZ's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.21%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.08%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%), Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC (0.04%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.01%). 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 Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for AZZ.

AZZ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . 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 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 $44.36.

AZZ has a market capitalization of $1.16 billion and generates $927.09 million in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $51.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.96 on an earnings per share basis. AZZ employs 3,884 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About AZZ.

The official website for AZZ is http://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.