The time has not yet come to remove your chips from the table: Eagle Materials Inc. (EXP)

With 0.71 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.35 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $291.895 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $286.3. The 52-week range on EXP shows that it touched its highest point at $292.74 and its lowest point at $145.03 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $290.60. With its current market cap of 9.67 billion, EXP has annualized dividend of $1.00 while the current yield stands at 0.35%. EXP paid its most recent dividend on 1726531200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1726531200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.32.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of EXP was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.28%, but this was up by 12.66% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 32.89% while six-month performance rose 8.67%. The stock gained 68.09% in the past year, while it has gained 41.82% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EXP yields 14.16 with Next year EPS estimates of 17.55. For the next quarter, that number is 4.77. This implies an EPS growth rate of 10.65% for this year and 11.89% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 56.12%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 34.14 million EXP shares are outstanding with a float of 33.21 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-08-30, short shares totaled 0.92 million, which was 274.0 higher than short shares on 1722384000. In addition to Mr. Michael R. Haack as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. D. Craig Kesler serves as its Executive VP of Finance & Administration and CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.02443 of EXP’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, EXP reported revenue of $608689000.0 and operating income of $171219000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $220150000.0 and diluted EPS was $3.94.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EXP since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.