The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Hayward Holdings Inc (NYSE: HAYW)

Hayward Holdings Inc (NYSE:HAYW) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.07M but it saw 1613639 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.98B USD, the company’s current market price of $13.76 came falling about -0.43 while comparing to the previous closing price of $13.82. 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.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Hayward Holdings Inc (HAYW) gives us an average price of $12.79, while its current price level is -18.44% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 23.96% 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 $13.49 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $14.57. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.53% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.21%. 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 58.13 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 3.23% up while it is 17.41% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -10.01% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -2.62%.

Currently, Hayward Holdings Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 216.20M with 2.15% of that held by the insiders while 98.49% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.04% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.92%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 24.76 while having a 17.19 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.15. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.07 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.79. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.17% on average.