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. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 31st. View AZZ's Dividend History.

AZZ Inc (NYSE:AZZ) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 9th. The industrial products company reported $0.84 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.84. The industrial products company had revenue of $291.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $271.31 million. AZZ had a return on equity of 10.79% and a net margin of 6.65%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 21.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business 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 updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.60-2.90 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.75. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.02-1.06 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.04 billion.

News coverage about AZZ stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. AZZ earned a coverage optimism score of -3.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for AZZ.

AZZ saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 394,300 shares, a drop of 28.5% from the January 15th total of 551,300 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 187,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.1 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View AZZ's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to AZZ include Acuity Brands (AYI), 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 a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.08%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.89%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.69%), FMR LLC (2.48%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.50%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.32%). 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Russell Investments Group Ltd., SG Americas Securities LLC, FMR LLC, Oxford Asset Management LLP, 361 Capital LLC and Chicago Equity Partners LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for AZZ.

AZZ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Marshall Wace LLP, UBS Group AG, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC and Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. 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 $37.56.

AZZ has a market capitalization of $985.57 million 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.