James Hardie Industries plc (NYSE: JHX) on Tuesday, soared 4.18% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $26.33. Within the past 52 weeks, JHX’s price has moved between $19.72 and $43.57.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Basic Materials sector was 12.45%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -9.05%. With a float of $576.04 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $578.60 million.
In terms of profitability, gross margin is 38.81%, operating margin of 16.92%, and the pretax margin is 16.64%.
James Hardie Industries plc (JHX) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Building Materials industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of James Hardie Industries plc is 0.44%, while institutional ownership is 6.61%.
James Hardie Industries plc (JHX) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -9.05% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.36% during the next five years compared to 12.45% growth over the previous five years of trading.
James Hardie Industries plc (NYSE: JHX) Trading Performance Indicators
James Hardie Industries plc (JHX) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.67 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.09. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 45.02.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.98, a number that is poised to hit 0.35 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.59 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of James Hardie Industries plc (JHX)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 3.3 million, its volume of 4.41 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 47.36%.
During the past 100 days, James Hardie Industries plc’s (JHX) raw stochastic average was set at 59.44%, which indicates a significant decrease from 80.67% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.67 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 0.87 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $26.19, while its 200-day Moving Average is $29.34.
