NYSE:FBM - Foundation Building Materials Stock Price, Forecast & News

Foundation Building Materials trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FBM."

Foundation Building Materials Inc (NYSE:FBM) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 4th. The company reported $0.33 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.27 by $0.06. The company earned $564.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $576.12 million. Foundation Building Materials had a return on equity of 10.31% and a net margin of 2.28%. Foundation Building Materials's quarterly revenue was up 4.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.19 EPS. View Foundation Building Materials' Earnings History.

Foundation Building Materials is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 24th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Foundation Building Materials.

4 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Foundation Building Materials' shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $24.00. On average, they anticipate Foundation Building Materials' stock price to reach $21.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Foundation Building Materials.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Foundation Building Materials in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Foundation Building Materials.

Media stories about FBM stock have been trending negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Foundation Building Materials earned a coverage optimism score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Foundation Building Materials.

Foundation Building Materials saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,230,000 shares, an increase of 30.4% from the January 15th total of 1,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 443,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.0 days. Currently, 11.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View Foundation Building Materials' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Foundation Building Materials include Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), Boise Cascade (BCC), GMS (GMS), Aspen Aerogels (ASPN) and Huttig Building Products (HBP).

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(FBM) raised $230 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, February 10th 2017. The company issued 12,800,000 shares at a price of $17.00-$19.00 per share. Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, RBC Capital Markets, Citigroup and Baird served as the underwriters for the IPO and Raymond James, Stephens, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and William Blair were co-managers.

Foundation Building Materials' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Lone Star Global Acquisitions Ltd. (47.22%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.51%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (1.55%), State Street Corp (1.19%), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (0.61%) and Man Group plc (0.59%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Foundation Building Materials.

FBM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Lone Star Global Acquisitions Ltd., Bank of America Corp DE, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Marshall Wace LLP, Oxford Asset Management LLP, Mackay Shields LLC, Algert Global LLC and Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd. View Insider Buying and Selling for Foundation Building Materials.

FBM stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, State Street Corp, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, AJO LP, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., Bank of Montreal Can and Cadence Capital Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Foundation Building Materials.

Shares of FBM 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 FBM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $17.50.

Foundation Building Materials has a market capitalization of $752.11 million and generates $2.04 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-12,180,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.35 on an earnings per share basis. Foundation Building Materials employs 3,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Foundation Building Materials.

The official website for Foundation Building Materials is http://www.fbmsales.com/.

Foundation Building Materials' mailing address is 2520 RED HILL AVENUE, SANTA ANA CA, 92705. The company can be reached via phone at 714-380-3127 or via email at [email protected]