Does United States Lime & Minerals Inc (USLM) offer a good opportunity for investors?

With 0.17 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 75420.0 shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $159.3736 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $147.84. The 52-week range on USLM shows that it touched its highest point at $159.53 and its lowest point at $41.91 during that stretch. With its current market cap of 4.40 billion, USLM has annualized dividend of $0.60 while the current yield stands at 0.39%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.89.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of USLM was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 9.95%, but this was up by 43.80% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 95.09% while six-month performance rose 122.38%. The stock gained 266.53% in the past year, while it has gained 233.82% so far this year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 28.52 million USLM shares are outstanding with a float of 10.56 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 0.14 million, which was 50.99999699999999 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Timothy W. Byrne CPA as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Michael L. Wiedemer serves as its VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.27864 of USLM’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, USLM reported revenue of $89427000.0 and operating income of $38137000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $44245000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.16.

Analysts Ratings:

In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.

The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.17. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.