BWS Financial Issues Positive Estimate for Hawkins Earnings

Hawkins, Inc. (NASDAQ:HWKN) – Analysts at BWS Financial raised their Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Hawkins in a report issued on Wednesday, October 16th. BWS Financial analyst H. Khorsand now expects that the specialty chemicals company will post earnings of $1.17 per share for the quarter, up from their previous estimate of $1.15. BWS Financial has a “Neutral” rating and a $122.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for Hawkins’ current full-year earnings is $4.14 per share. BWS Financial also issued estimates for Hawkins’ FY2025 earnings at $4.20 EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $1.51 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $1.40 EPS and Q4 2026 earnings at $1.09 EPS.

Hawkins Stock Down 5.5 %

Hawkins stock opened at $126.55 on Monday. Hawkins has a twelve month low of $53.64 and a twelve month high of $135.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a current ratio of 2.27. The firm has a market cap of $2.66 billion, a PE ratio of 35.25, a P/E/G ratio of 4.54 and a beta of 0.74. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $123.10 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $101.14.

Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, July 31st. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.38 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.01 by $0.37. The company had revenue of $255.88 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $254.30 million. Hawkins had a return on equity of 20.16% and a net margin of 8.75%.

Institutional Trading of Hawkins

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of HWKN. Westwood Holdings Group Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Hawkins during the 1st quarter valued at about $31,504,000. American Century Companies Inc. grew its position in Hawkins by 22.4% in the second quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 360,714 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock worth $32,825,000 after acquiring an additional 66,109 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in shares of Hawkins by 4.3% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 1,516,717 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock worth $106,807,000 after purchasing an additional 62,224 shares during the last quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its holdings in shares of Hawkins by 116.9% during the 1st quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 104,537 shares of the specialty chemicals company’s stock valued at $8,049,000 after purchasing an additional 56,330 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Aptus Capital Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Hawkins in the 2nd quarter valued at $4,741,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 69.71% of the company’s stock.

Hawkins Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 16th were paid a $0.18 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, August 16th. This is an increase from Hawkins’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.16. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.57%. Hawkins’s dividend payout ratio is 20.06%.

About Hawkins

Hawkins, Inc operates as a specialty chemical and ingredients company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Industrial, Water Treatment, and Health and Nutrition. The Industrial segment offers industrial chemicals, products, and services to agriculture, chemical processing, electronics, energy, food, pharmaceutical, and plating industries.