Eagle Materials (EXP) Stock Price, News & Analysis

9 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Eagle Materials in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" EXP shares.
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9 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Eagle Materials' shares. Their EXP share price targets range from $175.00 to $320.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $257.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.0% from the stock's current price.
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Eagle Materials' stock was trading at $202.84 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EXP shares have increased by 19.5% and is now trading at $242.38.
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Eagle Materials saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,060,000 shares, an increase of 6.7% from the March 15th total of 993,200 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 300,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.5 days. Currently, 3.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 16th 2024.
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Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE:EXP) issued its earnings results on Thursday, January, 25th. The construction company reported $3.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.16. The construction company earned $558.83 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $537.23 million. Eagle Materials had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 40.05% and a net margin of 22.24%.

Eagle Materials declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 5th. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, April 12th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 14th.
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Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.40%. The dividend payout ratio is 7.06%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EXP will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.20% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP) stock in their portfolio include Ballast Small/Mid Cap ETF (MGMT), Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB), SRH U.S. Quality ETF (SRHQ), Janus Henderson Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha ETF (JSMD), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (QMOM), Pacer Lunt MidCap Multi-Factor Alternator ETF (PAMC), Invesco S&P MidCap Quality ETF (XMHQ) and Invesco S&P MidCap Momentum ETF (XMMO).

9 employees have rated Eagle Materials Chief Executive Officer Steve Rowley on Glassdoor.com. Steve Rowley has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Steve Rowley in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Eagle Materials investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Pfizer (PFE), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Lam Research (LRCX), Micron Technology (MU), NIKE (NKE) and RTX (RTX).

Eagle Materials' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.89%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.74%), Hodges Capital Management Inc. (0.47%), Reinhart Partners LLC. (0.13%), Global Assets Advisory LLC (0.04%) and First Dallas Securities Inc. (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Dale Craig Kesler, David B Powers, David B Powers, Ed H Bowman Jr, Eric Cribbs, F William Barnett, George John Damiris, James H Graass, Martin M Ellen, Matt Newby, Michael Haack, Richard Ross Stewart, Steven L Wentzel, Tony Thompson, William R Devlin and William R Devlin.
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Shares of EXP stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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