CSW Industrials Inc (CSWI) expanding its growth trajectory ahead

With 68468.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.14 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Industrial Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $299.365 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $293.5969. The 52-week range on CSWI shows that it touched its highest point at $436.50 and its lowest point at $229.49 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $338.00. With its current market cap of 5.01 billion, CSWI has annualized dividend of $0.90 while the current yield stands at 0.30%. CSWI paid its most recent dividend on 1738281600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1745539200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.94.

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 CSWI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.83%, but this was up by 2.40% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -22.55% while six-month performance fell -24.19%. The stock gained 27.18% in the past year, while it has lost -15.41% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CSWI yields 8.37 with Next year EPS estimates of 9.58. For the next quarter, that number is 2.22. This implies an EPS growth rate of 21.53% for this year and 12.46% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.44% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 21.24%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 16.79 million CSWI shares are outstanding with a float of 16.55 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 0.49 million, which was 291.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Joseph Brooks Armes J.D. as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. James E. Perry serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.92345 of CSWI’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 2024-12-31, CSWI reported revenue of $193649000.0 and operating income of $29595000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $40842000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.6.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CSWI analysts setting a high price target of 405.0 and a low target of 295.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 338.0. Based on these targets, CSWI could surge 35.71% to reach the target high and fall by -1.15% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 13.26% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.12035 being high and $6.59263 being low. For CSWI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.82. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.85 and the low estimate is $2.53. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.76.