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Austal Limited is an aerospace & defense business based in Australia. Austal shares (ASB) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Austal has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.1 billion..
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52-week range | $2.265 - $4.2297 |
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50-day moving average | $2.7279 |
200-day moving average | $3.0782 |
Target price | $2.15 |
PE ratio | 10.1215 |
Dividend yield | $0.1 (4.08%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.247 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of A$3.19 on 2020-10-22
1 week (2021-01-15) | 26.59% |
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1 month (2020-12-23) | 19.03% |
3 months (2020-10-23) | 0.63% |
6 months (2020-07-23) | -3.04% |
1 year (2020-01-23) | -18.21% |
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2 years (2019-01-23) | 51.90% |
3 years (2018-01-23) | 72.90% |
5 years (2016-01-22) | 165.83% |
Valuing Austal stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Austal's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Austal's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 10x. In other words, Austal shares trade at around 10x 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.
Austal's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.99. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Austal's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Austal's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $158.1 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Austal's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $2.1 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 5.78% |
Gross profit TTM | $239.3 million |
Return on assets TTM | 5.59% |
Return on equity TTM | 12.9% |
Profit margin | 4.27% |
Book value | 2.103 |
Market capitalisation | $898.9 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 33.33% of net profits
Recently Austal has paid out, on average, around 33.33% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 4.08% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Austal shareholders could enjoy a 4.08% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Austal's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.1 per share.
While Austal's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Austal may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 8 September 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Austal's shares were split on 18 September 2001.
Over the last 12 months, Austal's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.265 up to $4.2297. 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 Austal's is 0.6517. This would suggest that Austal's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Austal Limited designs, manufactures, constructs, and supports defense and commercial vessels in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, South and Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. The company designs, constructs, and supports passenger ferries, vehicle and passenger ferries, and offshore and windfarm vessels; naval and other defense vessels; and patrol boats for government law enforcement and border protection agencies. It also develops and integrates advanced vessel control and information management systems, including MARINELINK, an integrated monitoring, alarm, and control system for vessel systems; MARINELINK-Smart vessel management system that provides vessel support service; and MARINELINK-Fleet, an off-the-shelf system, which offers shore-sourced ship position, schedule, and weather data, as well as motion control interceptors. In addition, the company provides life capability management and vessel support services, such as crew training and instruction, vessel servicing, repair and maintenance, integrated logistics support, vessel sustainment, and information management systems support to naval, government, and commercial operators; and refit services and management of annual dockings. Austal Limited was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Henderson, Australia.
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