Eagle Materials - EXP Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Eagle Materials in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" EXP shares.
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7 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Eagle Materials' shares. Their EXP share price forecasts range from $140.00 to $168.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $151.13 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.8% from the stock's current price.
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Eagle Materials' stock was trading at $132.85 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, EXP stock has increased by 6.5% and is now trading at $141.53.
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Eagle Materials saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totaling 798,800 shares, a decline of 8.7% from the December 15th total of 874,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 268,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.0 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 18th 2023.
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Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE:EXP) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 26th. The construction company reported $3.20 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.19 by $0.01. The construction company had revenue of $511.50 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $532.95 million. Eagle Materials had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 38.27% and a net margin of 20.83%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 10.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.53 earnings per share.

Eagle Materials announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 8th. Investors of record on Friday, December 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Thursday, January 12th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 15th.
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Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.71%. The dividend payout ratio is 8.64%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EXP will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.24% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EXP."

Eagle Materials' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (3.72%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.81%), Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.35%), Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH (0.25%), M&G Investment Management Ltd. (0.20%) and Whittier Trust Co. (0.14%). Insiders that own company stock include Dale Craig Kesler, David B Powers, David B Powers, Ed H Bowman Jr, F William Barnett, James H Graass, Martin M Ellen, Michael Haack, Richard Ross Stewart, Robert S Stewart, Steven L Wentzel, William R Devlin and William R Devlin.
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One share of EXP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $141.53.

Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) has a market capitalization of $5.10 billion and generates $1.86 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $374.25 million in net income (profit) each year or $11.57 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,200 workers across the globe.

Eagle Materials' mailing address is 5960 BERKSHIRE LANE SUITE 900, DALLAS TX, 75225. The official website for the company is www.eaglematerials.com. The construction company can be reached via phone at (214) 432-2000 or via fax at 214-432-2100.