Hayward (HAYW) Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hayward in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" HAYW shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HAYW, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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8 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Hayward's shares. Their HAYW share price forecasts range from $8.00 to $17.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $13.38 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.7%.
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Hayward's stock was trading at $9.40 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, HAYW shares have increased by 50.9% and is now trading at $14.18.
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Hayward saw a drop in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 16,720,000 shares, a drop of 8.2% from the August 15th total of 18,220,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,000,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 8.4 days. Currently, 7.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 7th 2023.
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Hayward Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HAYW) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 2nd. The company reported $0.19 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.16 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $283.54 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $266.69 million. Hayward had a net margin of 7.71% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.16%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 29.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.34 EPS.

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Hayward issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.01 billion-$1.05 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.04 billion.

6 employees have rated Hayward Chief Executive Officer Kevin Holleran on Glassdoor.com. Kevin Holleran has an approval rating of 59% among the company's employees. This puts Kevin Holleran in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 59.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Hayward to a friend.

(HAYW) raised $725 million in an initial public offering on Friday, March 12th 2021. The company issued 40,300,000 shares at $17.00-$19.00 per share. BofA Securities, Goldman Sachs, Nomura, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Baird, Guggenheim Securities and Jefferies acted as the underwriters for the IPO and BMO Capital Markets, KeyBanc Capital Markets, William Blair, Houlihan Lokey and Moelis & Co. were co-managers.

Hayward trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HAYW."

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One share of HAYW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.18.

Hayward (NYSE:HAYW) has a market capitalization of $3.02 billion and generates $1.31 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $179.35 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.34 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,000 workers across the globe.

Hayward's mailing address is 400 CONNELL DRIVE SUITE 6100, BERKELEY HEIGHTS NJ, 07922. The official website for the company is investor.hayward.com. The company can be reached via phone at 704-285-5445 or via email at investor.relations@hayward.com.