Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR) Stock Price, News & Analysis

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" RGR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in RGR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s stock was trading at $45.45 at the start of the year. Since then, RGR shares have increased by 1.5% and is now trading at $46.1250.
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 497,100 shares, a decrease of 21.3% from the March 15th total of 631,700 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 159,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.1 days. Currently, 2.9% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) released its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The company reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.67 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $130.60 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $133.75 million. Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. had a net margin of 8.87% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.59%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 12.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.06 EPS.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 21st. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.23 per share on Thursday, March 28th. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.17.
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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE:RGR) pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.02%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 33.82%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
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9 employees have rated Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christopher J. Killoy on Glassdoor.com. Christopher J. Killoy has an approval rating of 90% among the company's employees.

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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.'s stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Touchstone Capital Inc. (0.64%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.18%), IMC Chicago LLC (0.00%), Juncture Wealth Strategies LLC (0.03%), Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.03%) and CWM LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Amir Rosenthal, C Michael Jacobi, Christopher John Killoy, John A Cosentino Jr, Kevin B Sr Reid Sr, Michael O Fifer, Michael W Wilson, Michael W Wilson, Olivier Rabiller, Randall Wheeler, Rebecca S Halstead, Robert J Werkmeister Jr, Ronald C Whitaker, Sarah F Colbert, Shawn Christopher Leska, Terrence Gregory Oconnor, Thomas Anthony Dineen and Thomas Patrick Sullivan.
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