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How to buy Boral shares
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Boral Limited is a building materials business based in Australia. Boral shares (BLD) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Boral has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $5.4 billion.
How to buy shares in Boral
- Compare share trading platforms. To buy shares listed in Australia, you'll need to sign up to a broker with access to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Our table below can help you choose.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and tax file number. Fund your account with a bank transfer, PayPal or debit card.
- Search for Boral. Find the share by name or ticker symbol: BLD. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Boral reaches your desired price. To spread out your risk, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At today's price, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimise risk through the market's ups and downs.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Boral. Optimise your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
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What's in this guide?
- Boral key stats
- Compare share trading platforms
- Is Boral stock a buy or sell?
- Boral performance over time
- Is Boral suitable for ethical investing?
- Are Boral shares over-valued?
- Boral's financials
- How volatile are Boral shares?
- Does Boral pay a dividend?
- Have Boral shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Boral share price
Use our graph to track the performance of BLD stocks over time.Boral shares at a glance
Information last updated 2021-03-28.
| 52-week range | $1.88 - $5.74 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $5.3197 |
| 200-day moving average | $4.9459 |
| Target price | $7.1 |
| PE ratio | 26.7793 |
| Dividend yield | $0 (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.153 |
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The value of your investments can fall as well as rise and you may get back less than you invested. Past performance is no indication of future results.
Is it a good time to buy Boral stock?
The technical analysis gauge below displays real-time ratings for the timeframes you select. This is not a recommendation, however. It represents a technical analysis based on the most popular technical indicators: Moving Averages, Oscillators and Pivots. Finder might not concur and takes no responsibility.
Boral price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the last close of A$5.18
| 1 month (2021-03-11) | -6.33% |
|---|
Is Boral under- or over-valued?
Valuing Boral stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Boral's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Boral's P/E ratio
Boral's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 27x. In other words, Boral shares trade at around 27x 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.
Boral's PEG ratio
Boral's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.8. 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 Boral's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Boral's EBITDA
Boral's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $602.5 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Boral's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Boral financials
| Revenue TTM | $5.4 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 4.01% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.7 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.52% |
| Return on equity TTM | -22.14% |
| Profit margin | -20.57% |
| Book value | 3.644 |
| Market capitalisation | $6.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Boral's environmental, social and governance track record
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Boral.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Boral's total ESG risk score
Total ESG risk: 35.75
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Boral's overall score of 35.75 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 61st percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Boral is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Boral's environmental score
Environmental score: 24.62/100
Boral's environmental score of 24.62 puts it squarely in the 9th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Boral is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Boral's social score
Social score: 12.52/100
Boral's social score of 12.52 puts it squarely in the 9th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Boral is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.
Boral's governance score
Governance score: 16.61/100
Boral's governance score puts it squarely in the 9th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Boral is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Boral's controversy score
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Boral scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Boral has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary
Boral Limited was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 35.75 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 60.96 |
| Environmental score | 24.62 |
| Environmental score percentile | 9 |
| Social score | 12.52 |
| Social score percentile | 9 |
| Governance score | 16.61 |
| Governance score percentile | 9 |
| Level of controversy | 2 |
Boral share dividends
We're not expecting Boral to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Have Boral's shares ever split?
Boral's shares were split on a 1:2 basis on 20 February 2000. So if you had owned 2 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 Boral shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 100% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Boral shares which in turn could have impacted Boral's share price.
Boral share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Boral's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.88 up to $5.74. 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 Boral's is 1.6123. This would suggest that Boral's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Boral overview
Boral Limited manufactures and supplies building and construction materials in Australia, North America, Asia, and internationally. It offers asphalt, blocks, bricks, cement materials, concrete, pavers and retaining walls, plasterboards, quarry materials, roof tiles, fly ash, light building products and windows, and stones, as well as roofing and masonry, and timber products. In addition, it engages in the transport, landfill, and property activities. The company serves residential and non-residential construction, and the engineering and infrastructure markets. Boral Limited was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in North Sydney, Australia.
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