H&E Equipment Services Inc (NASDAQ:HEES) price is hovering higher on current market day and jumping 105.58% above its previous close.
A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $43.94, with intraday deals fluctuating between $90.21 and $90.66. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.811 while its P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 22.90. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $66.18 and 52-week low of $40.92. The stock added 59.30% on its value in the past month.
H&E Equipment Services Inc, which has a market valuation of $3.31 billion, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in February. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.10, while the dividend yield is 1.22%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit 373.19M, with the likely lows of 367.81M and highs of 379.24M. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely fall by -3.27% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of 1.51B for the company’s annual revenue in current year. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 2.49% above that which the company brought in the current year earning report.
Technical indicators in stocks provide crucial insights into market trends, guiding investors with precise entry and exit points based on price movements for informed decision-making.On the technical perspective front, indicators give HEES a short term outlook of Hold on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Buy.
Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 2 analysts have assigned HEES a recommendation rating as follows: 0 rate it as a Hold; 2 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the H&E Equipment Services Inc (HEES) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
The overview shows that HEES’s price is at present 76.19% off the SMA20 and 63.99% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 84.68, with weekly volatility standing at 3.35%. The indicator jumps to 3.32% when calculated based on the past 30 days. H&E Equipment Services Inc (NASDAQ:HEES)’s beta value is holding at 1.86, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 4.94. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $46-$71 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $57. Based on this estimate, we see that today’s price at last check is roughly 49.08% off the estimated low and 21.4% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price rise to $57, which is the median consensus price, and at that level HEES would be 36.9% from recent price.
An analysis of the H&E Equipment Services Inc (NASDAQ:HEES) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 261.23K. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 0.25 million.
Current records show that the company has 36.61M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 12.55% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 79.89%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-12-31, stood at 1.32 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 5.87. From this we can glean that short interest is 469.00 of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in December rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 1.15 million. But the 84.50% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
