Oppenheimer raised the price target for the Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:BZH) stock to “an Outperform”. The rating was released on May 31, 2024, according to finviz. The research report from Sidoti has upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy, with a price target set at $36. The stock was downgraded by Wedbush, who disclosed in a research note on August 18, 2023, from Outperform to Neutral and set the price objective to $32. In their research brief published July 12, 2023, Sidoti analysts downgraded the Beazer Homes USA Inc. stock from Buy to Neutral with a price target of $31.
The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated 22.29% within the last five trades and 18.63% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price increased 5.18% in the last 6 months and 24.65% was added to its value over the previous 3 months. BZH stock is trading at a margin of 17.74%, 16.75% and 14.40% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
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As of the close of trading, BZH deals in the Consumer Cyclical domain. The stock is trading -8.38 percent below its 52-week high and 49.43 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is 16.3. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Beazer Homes USA Inc.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 7.74 percent and the profit margin is 7.48 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 20.01 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $1.04 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:BZH) is 6.36. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 6.01. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 0.48 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 0.89, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 7.13 percent of Beazer Homes USA Inc. shares are owned by insiders, and 83.10 percent are held by financial institutions. Belknap Keith L Jr, the EVP, General Counsel at Beazer Homes USA Inc. (BZH) has sold 80,738 shares of firm on Jul 16 ’24 at a price of $33.06 against the total amount of $2.67 million. In another inside trade, Belknap Keith L Jr, EVP, General Counsel of Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:BZH) sold 13,300 shares of the firm on Jul 15 ’24 for a total worth of $0.41 million at a price of $31.17. An inside trade which took place on Jul 12 ’24, EVP, General Counsel of Beazer Homes USA Inc. Belknap Keith L Jr sold 13,462 shares of firm against total price of $0.41 million at the cost of $30.73 per share.
