James Hardie Industries plc ADR (JHX) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $23.87, with 6.59 million shares of worth about $157.38 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -33.97% during that period and on May 21, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.48%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 429.82M shares, out of which, 429.40M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -7.26% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.09%. Year-to-date (YTD), JHX shares are showing a performance of -22.53% which decreased to -35.07% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $19.72 but also hit the highest price of $43.57 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for James Hardie Industries plc ADR shares is 2.34 million. The stock is currently trading -2.35% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -3.48% for SMA50 and it goes to -25.13% lower than SMA200.
James Hardie Industries plc ADR (NYSE: JHX) currently have 429.82M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 8.50% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.26B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.76. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 24.43, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.98 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.61 and has Quick Ratio of 1.67 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.56. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for JHX, volatility over the week remained 2.89% while standing at 2.88% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that James Hardie Industries plc ADR (JHX) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0 and it is 2.01 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0 which is 0 at the higher side of the target for the same. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 0.64% while it is estimated to increase by 14.57% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 9.36% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.44% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BofA Securities on March 27, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $27.40 and $27.35 to it. On March 24, 2025, Macquarie Downgrade their recommendations, while on December 10, 2024, Truist Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $45. Stock get an Overweight rating from JP Morgan on November 06, 2024.
