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Acrow Formwork and Construction Services Limited is an engineering & construction business based in Australia. Acrow Formwork and Construction Services shares (ACF) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Acrow Formwork and Construction Services has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $81.7 million..
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52-week range | $0.13 - $0.385 |
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50-day moving average | $0.3504 |
200-day moving average | $0.2981 |
Target price | $0.55 |
PE ratio | 23.3766 |
Dividend yield | $0.02 (5.54%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.015 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of A$0.36 on 2020-10-22
1 week (2021-01-12) | -4.00% |
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1 month (2020-12-18) | -1.37% |
3 months (2020-10-20) | -2.70% |
6 months (2020-07-20) | 24.14% |
1 year (2020-01-17) | -2.70% |
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2 years (2019-01-18) | -20.00% |
3 years (2018-01-19) | 125.00% |
5 years (2016-01-19) | -96.00% |
Valuing Acrow Formwork and Construction Services stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 23x. In other words, Acrow Formwork and Construction Services shares trade at around 23x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $11.3 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $81.7 million |
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Operating margin TTM | 7.35% |
Gross profit TTM | $49 million |
Return on assets TTM | 3.36% |
Return on equity TTM | 5.69% |
Profit margin | 3.69% |
Book value | 0.27 |
Market capitalisation | $78.9 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 170% of net profits
Recently Acrow Formwork and Construction Services has paid out, on average, around 170% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 5.54% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Acrow Formwork and Construction Services shareholders could enjoy a 5.54% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.02 per share.
Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 21 October 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's shares were split on a 1:20 basis on 14 March 2018. So if you had owned 20 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Acrow Formwork and Construction Services shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Acrow Formwork and Construction Services shares which in turn could have impacted Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.13 up to $0.385. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's is 0.3855. This would suggest that Acrow Formwork and Construction Services's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Acrow Formwork and Construction Services Limited operates as a formwork and scaffolding company in Australia. It is involved in the rental of formwork equipment, including wall forming panel systems; soffit forming systems, including Acrowform aluminium panels; GASS table forms; super cuplok; and conventional systems; and scaffold equipment comprising cuplok scaffolding, super cuplok scaffolding, surelock scaffolding, and Acrowskaf scaffolding products. It offers hire and sales solutions to residential, commercial, civil, and industrial customers. The company was formerly known as NMG Corporation Limited and changed its name to Acrow Formwork and Construction Services Limited. The company was founded in 1936 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
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