AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 5.000-5.300 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 5.070. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.6 billion-$1.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.6 billion. AZZ also updated its FY25 guidance to $5.00-5.30 EPS.

AZZ Price Performance

AZZ traded down $0.23 on Tuesday, hitting $84.87. 396,422 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 230,743. AZZ has a one year low of $55.78 and a one year high of $97.98. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.91. The firm has a market cap of $2.54 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 66.31, a P/E/G ratio of 1.33 and a beta of 1.30. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $86.87 and its 200-day simple moving average is $81.79.

AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 7th. The industrial products company reported $1.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.29 by $0.10. AZZ had a net margin of 7.63% and a return on equity of 16.88%. The company had revenue of $403.65 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $394.30 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.19 EPS. AZZ’s revenue for the quarter was up 5.8% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts anticipate that AZZ will post 5.08 EPS for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group increased their price objective on shares of AZZ from $105.00 to $110.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, December 6th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $96.80.

AZZ Company Profile

AZZ Inc provides hot-dip galvanizing and coil coating solutions in North America. It offers metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot-dip galvanizing, spin galvanizing, powder coating, anodizing, and plating to steel fabrication and other industries, as well as to fabricators or manufacturers that provide services to the transmission and distribution, bridge and highway, petrochemical, and general industrial markets; and original equipment manufacturers.