BWX Technologies Inc (NYSE: BWXT) is 72.18% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $74.69 and a high of $128.00 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The BWXT stock was last observed hovering at around $126.93 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 5.18%.
Currently trading at $132.11, the stock is 6.77% and 15.92% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.89 million and changing 4.08% at the moment leaves the stock 32.39% off its SMA200. BWXT registered 71.91% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 45.93%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $113.9618 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $99.7879.
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The stock witnessed a 11.09% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 34.53%, and is 11.65% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.96% over the week and 2.88% over the month.
BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) has around 7800 employees, a market worth around $12.08B and $2.68B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 43.85 and Fwd P/E is 38.45. Profit margin for the company is 10.32%. Distance from 52-week low is 76.88% and 3.21% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (12.14%).
BWX Technologies Inc quarterly earnings per share for the current quarter are estimated at 0.8 with sales reaching $722.65M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 6.53% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 7.50% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -0.40% in year-over-year returns.
654.0 institutions hold shares in BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT), with institutional investors hold 92.43% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 91.53M, and float is at 91.09M with Short Float at 1.20%. Institutions hold 92.08% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 9.28 million shares valued at $881.54 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.1353 of the BWXT Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 8.85 million shares valued at $841.06 million to account for 9.6698 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC which holds 3.97 million shares representing 4.3378 and valued at over $377.29 million, while T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. holds 4.1647 of the shares totaling 3.81 million with a market value of $362.23 million.
BWX Technologies Inc (BWXT) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Burbach Gerhard F, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Burbach Gerhard F sold 1,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 06 ’24 at a price of $105.42 per share for a total of $0.11 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 391.0 shares.
