AZZ Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AZZ in the last year. 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 stock.
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AZZ saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 13th, there was short interest totaling 375,700 shares, an increase of 18.5% from the July 29th total of 317,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 126,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.0 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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AZZ is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 12th 2021.
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AZZ Inc. (NYSE:AZZ) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 8th. The industrial products company reported $0.88 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.62 by $0.26. The industrial products company earned $229.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $223.69 million. AZZ had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.47% and a net margin of 6.59%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 7.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.21 earnings per share.
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AZZ's stock was trading at $29.86 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AZZ shares have increased by 74.2% and is now trading at $52.02.
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AZZ declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 1st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, July 20th will be given a dividend of $0.17 per share on Tuesday, August 3rd. This represents a $0.68 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.31%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, July 19th.
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AZZ pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.30%. The dividend payout ratio of AZZ is 32.23%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AZZ will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.79% next year. This indicates that AZZ will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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AZZ updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Friday, July, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.650-$3.050 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.700. The company issued revenue guidance of $855 million-$935 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $911.45 million.

2 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for AZZ's stock. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate AZZ's stock price to reach $50.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.9%.
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30 employees have rated AZZ CEO Tom Ferguson on Glassdoor.com. Tom Ferguson has an approval rating of 41% among AZZ's employees. This puts Tom Ferguson in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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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. (15.67%), Vanguard Group Inc. (10.47%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (10.28%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.63%), State Street Corp (3.23%) and Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC (3.04%). Company insiders that own AZZ stock include Bryan Lee Stovall, Gary L Hill, Ken Lavelle, Tara D Mackey and Thomas E Ferguson.
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AZZ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, LSV Asset Management, BlackRock Inc., Wasatch Advisors Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of America Corp DE, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Cove Street Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold AZZ company stock in the last year include Bryan Lee Stovall, Gary L Hill, Tara D Mackey, and Thomas E Ferguson.
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AZZ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Invesco Ltd., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio, and Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC. Company insiders that have bought AZZ stock in the last two years include Ken Lavelle, and Thomas E Ferguson.
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Shares of AZZ 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 $52.02.

AZZ has a market capitalization of $1.30 billion and generates $838.92 million in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $39.61 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.11 on an earnings per share basis.

AZZ employs 3,883 workers across the globe.

AZZ was founded in 1956.

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

AZZ is headquartered at ONE MUSEUM PLACE SUITE 500 3100 W 7TH STREET, FORT WORTH TX, 76107.

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.