Hawkins (HWKN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hawkins in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" HWKN shares.
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1 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Hawkins' stock. Their HWKN share price targets range from $74.00 to $74.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $74.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%.
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Hawkins' stock was trading at $70.42 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, HWKN shares have increased by 6.1% and is now trading at $74.70.
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Hawkins saw a drop in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 412,300 shares, a drop of 42.8% from the March 15th total of 720,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 146,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.8 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 15th 2024.
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Hawkins, Inc. (NASDAQ:HWKN) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 31st. The specialty chemicals company reported $0.71 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.61 by $0.10. The specialty chemicals company earned $208.50 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $221.24 million. Hawkins had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.54% and a net margin of 7.91%.

Hawkins declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 16th will be given a dividend of $0.16 per share on Friday, March 1st. This represents a $0.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.86%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 15th.
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Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.86%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 19 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 18.39%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, HWKN will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.49% 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 Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF (PSCM), First Trust Water ETF (FIW), Invesco Dorsey Wright Basic Materials Momentum ETF (PYZ), Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF (CAFG), Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG), JPMorgan Active Small Cap Value ETF (JPSV) and Janus Henderson Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF (JSML).iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC).

Shares of Hawkins split on the morning of Tuesday, March 2nd 2021. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 28th 2021. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, March 1st 2021. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

22 employees have rated Hawkins Chief Executive Officer Patrick H. Hawkins on Glassdoor.com. Patrick H. Hawkins has an approval rating of 83% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Hawkins investors own include Xtrackers California Municipal Bond ETF (CA), Endologix (ELGX), BlackRock (BLK), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Accenture (ACN), NN (NNBR) and Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK).

Hawkins' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.56%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.06%), Annex Advisory Services LLC (0.06%) and Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.05%).
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