With 429.82M Outstanding Shares, Can James Hardie Industries plc ADR (NYSE: JHX) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

James Hardie Industries plc ADR (NYSE:JHX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.34M but it saw 6593040 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 10.26B USD, the company’s current market price of $23.87 came falling about -3.48 while comparing to the previous closing price of $24.73. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $43.57 and as low as $19.72.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the BofA Securities which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on March 27, 2025, recommending a price target of between $27.40 and $27.35 for it.

Over the week, JHX’s stock price is moving -7.26% down while it is 6.09% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -22.53% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -35.07%.

Currently, James Hardie Industries plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 429.82M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 8.28% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 12.68% and return on equity (ROE) at 21.05%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 24.43 while having a 13.89 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.76. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.75 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.65. Its return on asset (ROA) is 8.34% on average.