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) posted 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 firm had revenue of $564.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $576.12 million. Foundation Building Materials had a net margin of 2.28% and a return on equity of 10.31%. Foundation Building Materials's quarterly revenue was up 4.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.19 earnings per share. 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 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Foundation Building Materials' stock. 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 10.8% 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 positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Foundation Building Materials earned a news impact score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Foundation Building Materials.

Foundation Building Materials saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,710,000 shares, an increase of 23.0% from the December 15th total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 469,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.6 days. Approximately 8.5% of the company's shares are sold short. 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 $17.00-$19.00 per share. Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, RBC Capital Markets, Citigroup and Baird acted 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co. (0.42%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Foundation Building Materials.

FBM stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co.. 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 $19.63.

Foundation Building Materials has a market capitalization of $843.89 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]