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 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Hayward's stock. Their HAYW share price targets range from $14.00 to $16.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $14.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.3% from the stock's current price.
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Hayward's stock was trading at $13.60 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, HAYW shares have decreased by 2.9% and is now trading at $13.21.
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Hayward saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 18,890,000 shares, a drop 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 13.9 days. Currently, 8.9% of the company's shares are sold short.
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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) posted its earnings results on Thursday, February, 29th. The company reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $278.50 million for 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%. Hayward's quarterly revenue was up 7.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last 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%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), Diversified Trust Co (0.02%), Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.02%), Oak Thistle LLC (0.01%) and Moody National Bank Trust Division (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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