James Hardie Industries plc (NYSE:JHX) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 2.63% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $28.51.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $27.78, falling within a range of $27.77 and $28.53. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.876 whereas the PE ratio is 29.12 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $43.57, and the low was $19.72. On the whole, JHX has fluctuated by 5.83% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of James Hardie Industries plc currently standing at about $16.50 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-20.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that JHX’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.91, with the price of JHX currently trading nearly 7.18% and 12.41% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 62.55, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.93% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.38%. Furthermore, James Hardie Industries plc (JHX)’s beta value is 1.75.
A comparison of James Hardie Industries plc (JHX) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. JHX showed an intraday change of 2.63% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -7.47%%.
Data on historical trading for James Hardie Industries plc (NYSE:JHX) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 12.04 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 5.15 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 578.60 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.10% of James Hardie Industries plc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 6.62% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 38.17 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 7.72. According to the data, the short interest in James Hardie Industries plc (JHX) stood at 889.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 23.9 million. The stock has fallen by -10.32% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the JHX stock heading into the next quarter.
