With 215.78M Outstanding Shares, Can Hayward Holdings Inc (NYSE: HAYW) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Hayward Holdings Inc (NYSE:HAYW) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.91M but it saw 3014674 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.68B USD, the company’s current market price of $12.40 came rising about 9.54 while comparing to the previous closing price of $11.32. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $16.87 and as low as $11.10. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $11.11 while lowest mark touched by it was $12.5.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Hayward Holdings Inc (HAYW) gives us an average price of $13.56, while its current price level is -26.50% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 11.71% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $14.11 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $14.55. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 9.14% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 4.19%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 39.10 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Stifel upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on February 05, 2025 while assigning a price target of $16.50.

Over the week, HAYW’s stock price is moving -11.81% down while it is -12.61% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -18.90% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -15.18%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-26, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.09 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.72. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $298.03M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $1.08B and seeing the company making $1.15B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $215.47M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Hayward Holdings Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 215.78M with 0.83% of that held by the insiders while 99.01% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.88% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.68%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 23.15 while having a 15.43 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.20. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.88 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.55. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.00% on average.