BWS Financial Issues Negative Forecast for TriMas Earnings

TriMas Co. (NASDAQ:TRS) – Investment analysts at BWS Financial decreased their Q4 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of TriMas in a report issued on Wednesday, April 30th. BWS Financial analyst H. Khorsand now forecasts that the industrial products company will post earnings per share of $0.33 for the quarter, down from their previous estimate of $0.34. BWS Financial has a “Buy” rating and a $40.00 price objective on the stock. The consensus estimate for TriMas’ current full-year earnings is $1.69 per share.

TriMas Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ TRS opened at $24.75 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $1.01 billion, a PE ratio of 38.67 and a beta of 0.55. The company has a quick ratio of 1.44, a current ratio of 2.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.60. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $22.47 and its 200-day moving average price is $24.31. TriMas has a twelve month low of $19.33 and a twelve month high of $28.51.

TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 29th. The industrial products company reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.43 by $0.03. TriMas had a net margin of 2.93% and a return on equity of 9.21%. The company had revenue of $241.67 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $235.41 million. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.37 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 6.4% on a year-over-year basis.

TriMas Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, May 13th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 6th will be given a $0.04 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 6th. This represents a $0.16 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.65%. TriMas’s dividend payout ratio is currently 27.12%.

Insider Buying and Selling at TriMas

In other news, Director Shawn Sedaghat acquired 123,388 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 30th. The shares were acquired at an average price of $23.83 per share, for a total transaction of $2,940,336.04. Following the completion of the purchase, the director now owns 1,024,362 shares in the company, valued at approximately $24,410,546.46. This trade represents a 13.69 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The purchase was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Scott A. Mell sold 2,218 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $22.54, for a total value of $49,993.72. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 26,288 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $592,531.52. This represents a 7.78 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders acquired 929,634 shares of company stock worth $22,278,549 in the last quarter. 14.20% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Sterling Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in TriMas by 815.5% during the fourth quarter. Sterling Capital Management LLC now owns 1,300 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 1,158 shares during the last quarter. State of Wyoming purchased a new stake in shares of TriMas during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $50,000. KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS purchased a new stake in shares of TriMas during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $202,000. ProShare Advisors LLC bought a new position in TriMas in the 4th quarter worth approximately $281,000. Finally, Quantbot Technologies LP grew its stake in TriMas by 203.5% in the 4th quarter. Quantbot Technologies LP now owns 11,978 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $295,000 after buying an additional 8,031 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 99.42% of the company’s stock.

TriMas Company Profile

TriMas Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of products for consumer products, aerospace, and industrial markets worldwide. The company operates through Packaging, Aerospace, and Specialty Products segments. The Packaging segment offers dispensing products, such as foaming and sanitizer pumps, lotion and hand soap pumps, beverage dispensers, perfume sprayers, and nasal and trigger sprayers; polymeric and steel caps and closures comprising food lids, flip-top and beverage closures, child resistance caps, drum and pail closures, and flexible spouts; polymeric jar products; integrated dispensers; bag-in-box products; and consumable vascular delivery and diagnostic test components under the Rieke, Taplast, Affaba & Ferrari, Intertech, Omega, and Rapak brands.