Hayward - HAYW Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hayward in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 2 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 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Hayward's shares. Their HAYW share price forecasts range from $8.00 to $27.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $13.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 38.0% from the stock's current price.
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Hayward's stock was trading at $26.23 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, HAYW shares have decreased by 62.7% and is now trading at $9.78.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 1st 2023.
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Hayward Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HAYW) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 27th. The company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.23 by $0.02. The firm earned $350.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $323.36 million. Hayward had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.10% and a net margin of 16.13%. The company's revenue was up 56.1% compared to the same quarter last year.

Hayward issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.32 billion-$1.32 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.32 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 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HAYW."

Hayward's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Neuberger Berman Group LLC (4.10%), Vanguard Group Inc. (4.06%), Cantillon Capital Management LLC (2.50%), BlackRock Inc. (1.63%), Eaton Vance Management (0.99%) and Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC (0.74%). 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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Shares of HAYW stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of HAYW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $9.78.

Hayward (NYSE:HAYW) has a market capitalization of $2.07 billion and generates $1.40 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $203.73 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.95 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,800 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 908-354-5400 or via email at investor.relations@hayward.com.