Hayward (HAYW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hayward in the last year. There are currently 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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7 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Hayward's shares. Their HAYW share price targets range from $11.00 to $16.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $13.57 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.1% from the stock's current price.
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Hayward's stock was trading at $9.40 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, HAYW shares have increased by 33.5% and is now trading at $12.55.
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Hayward saw a decrease in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 19,110,000 shares, a decrease of 15.3% from the October 31st total of 22,570,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,760,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.9 days. Approximately 9.0% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 27th 2024.
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Hayward Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HAYW) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 31st. The company reported $0.08 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.08. The company earned $220.30 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $210.15 million. Hayward had a net margin of 6.74% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.00%.

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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 a price of $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's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (12.48%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.79%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.59%), Cantillon Capital Management LLC (2.57%), Jennison Associates LLC (2.14%) and American Century Companies Inc. (1.69%). Insiders that own company stock include Alberta Investment Management, Arthur L Soucy, Ccmp Capital, Lp, Donald Matthew Smith, Eifion Jones, Fernando Blasco, Kevin Holleran, Lawrence Harris Silber, Lesley Billow and Rick Roetken.
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