Hayward (HAYW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hayward in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating 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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5 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Hayward's shares. Their HAYW share price targets range from $14.00 to $16.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $14.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.6% from the stock's current price.
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Hayward's stock was trading at $13.60 at the start of the year. Since then, HAYW stock has decreased by 3.2% and is now trading at $13.17.
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Hayward saw a decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 18,890,000 shares, a decline of 5.5% from the February 29th total of 19,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,360,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 13.9 days. Currently, 8.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2024.
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Hayward will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 412-317-6671 with passcode "03240328".

Hayward Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HAYW) announced its earnings results on Thursday, February, 29th. The company reported $0.20 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.02. The firm earned $278.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $271.47 million. Hayward had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.55% and a net margin of 8.13%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 7.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.10 EPS.

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Hayward issued an update on its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 29th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.0 billion-$1.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.0 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.

Hayward (HAYW) raised $725 million in an IPO on Friday, March 12th 2021. The company issued 40,300,000 shares at $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's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.11%), Diversified Trust Co (0.02%), Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.02%), Oak Thistle LLC (0.01%), Moody National Bank Trust Division (0.00%) and GAMMA Investing LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Alberta Investment Management, Arthur L Soucy, Ccmp Capital, Lp, Donald Matthew Smith, Eifion Jones, Fernando Blasco, Kevin Holleran, Lesley Billow and Rick Roetken.
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