Noble Financial Comments on AZZ’s Q1 Earnings (NYSE:AZZ)

AZZ Inc. (NYSE:AZZ) – Investment analysts at Noble Financial boosted their Q1 2026 earnings estimates for shares of AZZ in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday, December 2nd. Noble Financial analyst M. Reichman now forecasts that the industrial products company will post earnings of $1.54 per share for the quarter, up from their previous forecast of $1.50. The consensus estimate for AZZ’s current full-year earnings is $5.11 per share. Noble Financial also issued estimates for AZZ’s Q2 2026 earnings at $1.57 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $1.40 EPS and Q4 2026 earnings at $1.09 EPS.

AZZ (NYSE:AZZ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 9th. The industrial products company reported $1.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.32 by $0.05. The firm had revenue of $409.01 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $409.50 million. AZZ had a net margin of 7.63% and a return on equity of 16.88%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 2.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.27 earnings per share.

AZZ Price Performance

AZZ stock opened at $93.80 on Tuesday. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $82.91 and a 200 day simple moving average of $80.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 1.85 and a quick ratio of 1.32. The company has a market capitalization of $2.80 billion, a PE ratio of 73.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.30. AZZ has a one year low of $50.04 and a one year high of $97.98.

AZZ Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, November 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 18th were issued a dividend of $0.17 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, October 18th. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.72%. AZZ’s payout ratio is presently 53.13%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On AZZ

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Farther Finance Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of AZZ by 3,790.0% in the third quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 389 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $32,000 after buying an additional 379 shares in the last quarter. CWM LLC increased its position in AZZ by 69.4% in the 2nd quarter. CWM LLC now owns 459 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $35,000 after acquiring an additional 188 shares in the last quarter. Point72 DIFC Ltd bought a new position in shares of AZZ in the second quarter worth about $52,000. Point72 Asia Singapore Pte. Ltd. acquired a new position in shares of AZZ during the second quarter worth approximately $67,000. Finally, 1620 Investment Advisors Inc. bought a new stake in shares of AZZ during the second quarter valued at approximately $72,000. Institutional investors own 90.93% of the company’s stock.

About AZZ

AZZ Inc provides hot-dip galvanizing and coil coating solutions in North America. It offers metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot-dip galvanizing, spin galvanizing, powder coating, anodizing, and plating to steel fabrication and other industries, as well as to fabricators or manufacturers that provide services to the transmission and distribution, bridge and highway, petrochemical, and general industrial markets; and original equipment manufacturers.