Eagle Materials Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:EXP)

8 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Eagle Materials in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" EXP shares.
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8 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Eagle Materials' shares. Their EXP share price targets range from $149.00 to $230.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $197.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.3% from the stock's current price.
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Eagle Materials' stock was trading at $132.85 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EXP shares have increased by 37.3% and is now trading at $182.44.
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Eagle Materials saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 937,100 shares, an increase of 18.5% from the October 15th total of 790,600 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 306,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Currently, 2.7% 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 Thursday, January 25th 2024.
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Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE:EXP) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The construction company reported $4.28 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $4.18 by $0.10. The construction company earned $622.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $636 million. Eagle Materials had a net margin of 22.17% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 40.45%. The firm's revenue was up 2.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $3.72 EPS.

Eagle Materials declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 6th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 15th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, January 12th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.55%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 14th.
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Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.54%. The dividend payout ratio is 7.33%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EXP will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.44% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) stock in their portfolio include Ballast Small/Mid Cap ETF (MGMT), Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB), Janus Henderson Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha ETF (JSMD), SRH U.S. Quality ETF (SRHQ), AdvisorShares Insiders Advantage ETF (SURE), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ), First Trust Industrials/Producer Durables AlphaDEX Fund (FXR) and iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB).

9 employees have rated Eagle Materials Chief Executive Officer Steve Rowley on Glassdoor.com. Steve Rowley has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Steve Rowley in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Eagle Materials' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (7.20%), Invesco Ltd. (3.15%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.94%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (2.52%), William Blair Investment Management LLC (1.91%) and Federated Hermes Inc. (1.21%). Insiders that own company stock include Dale Craig Kesler, David B Powers, David B Powers, Ed H Bowman Jr, Eric Cribbs, F William Barnett, George John Damiris, James H Graass, Martin M Ellen, Matt Newby, Michael Haack, Richard Ross Stewart, Robert S Stewart, Steven L Wentzel, Tony Thompson, William R Devlin and William R Devlin.
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