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How to buy Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation stock | $7.34
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Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation is a metal fabrication business based in the US. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares (AP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation employs 1,673 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$338.5 million.
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- Search for Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: AP. 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 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$7.34, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation. Optimize 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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- AP shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is AP stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short AP shares?
- Are AP shares over-valued?
- Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's financials
- How volatile are AP shares?
- Does Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation pay a dividend?
- Have AP shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation share price
Use our graph to track the performance of AP stocks over time.Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-12-26.
| Latest market close | USD$7.34 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | USD$1.94 - USD$6.81 |
| 50-day moving average | USD$4.8632 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$3.7849 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$5 |
| PE ratio | 8.845 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$0.658 |
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Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $7.34 from 2021-01-11
| 1 week (2021-01-07) | 1.94% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-12-16) | 37.71% |
| 3 months (2020-10-16) | 63.11% |
| 6 months (2020-07-16) | 144.37% |
| 1 year (2020-01-16) | 153.10% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2019-01-16) | 74.76% |
| 3 years (2018-01-16) | 14.6 |
| 5 years (2016-01-15) | 9.71 |
Is Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation under- or over-valued?
Valuing Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's P/E ratio
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 9x. In other words, Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares trade at around 9x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's EBITDA
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$24.2 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$338.5 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 1.93% |
| Gross profit TTM | USD$71.7 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 0.83% |
| Return on equity TTM | 13.91% |
| Profit margin | 2.62% |
| Book value | $4.256 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$106.6 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares
There are currently 256,525 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 130.8% up from 111,137 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares can be evaluated.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 107783.61344538). Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's SIR currently stands at 2.38. In other words for every 100,000 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2380 shares are currently held short.
However Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0206% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares, roughly 21 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation.
Find out more about how you can short Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation stock.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation share dividends
We're not expecting Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Have Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares ever split?
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares were split on a 4:3 basis on 2 February 1981. So if you had owned 3 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 4 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 25% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's share price.
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.94 up to $6.81. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's is 1.1176. This would suggest that Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation overview
Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells custom designed engineering products to commercial and industrial users in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Forged and Cast Engineered Products; and Air and Liquid Processing. The Forged and Cast Engineered Products segment produces forged hardened steel rolls that are used in cold rolling mills by producers of steel, aluminum, and other metals; cast rolls for hot and cold strip mills, medium/heavy section mills, hot strip finishing, roughing mills, and plate mills in various iron and steel qualities; and forged engineered products for use in the oil and gas, and the aluminum and plastic extrusion industries. This segment also offers forged rolls for cluster mills and Z-Hi mills; work rolls for narrow and wide strip and aluminum mills; back-up rolls for narrow strip mills; leveling rolls and shafts; and distributes tool steels, alloys, and carbon round bars. The Air and Liquid Processing segment produces custom-engineered finned tube heat exchange coils and related heat transfer products for various industries, including nuclear power generation, OEM/commercial, and industrial manufacturing; and custom-designed air handling systems for institutional, pharmaceutical, and general industrial building markets. This segment also provides centrifugal pumps the fossil-fueled power generation, marine defense, and industrial refrigeration industries. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.
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