Does Oshkosh Corp (OSK) offer a good opportunity for investors?

With 0.92 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.6 million shares. During the session, the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $97.3 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $93.87. The 52-week range on OSK shows that it touched its highest point at $127.98 and its lowest point at $93.34 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $121.31. With its current market cap of 6.13 billion, OSK has annualized dividend of $1.84 while the current yield stands at 1.95%. OSK paid its most recent dividend on 1723766400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.21.

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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 OSK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.16%, but this was down by -12.63% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.33% while six-month performance fell -12.42%. The stock lost -13.16% in the past year, while it has lost -13.12% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OSK yields 10.30 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.66. For the next quarter, that number is 2.17. This implies an EPS growth rate of 13.59% for this year and -6.00% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 8.99% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 7.60%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 65.06 million OSK shares are outstanding with a float of 64.59 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 1.21 million, which was 187.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. John C. Pfeifer as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Mahesh Narang serves as its Executive VP & President of the Access Segment.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.93787 of OSK’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 2024-09-30, OSK reported revenue of $2741400000.0 and operating income of $266200000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $323600000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.75.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for OSK since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With OSK analysts setting a high price target of 160.0 and a low target of 98.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 121.23. Based on these targets, OSK could surge 69.87% to reach the target high and rise by 4.05% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 28.71% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $11.38676 being high and $11.17701 being low. For OSK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $11.33682. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.13 and the low estimate is $1.99. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.5.