How to buy Hawkins stock

Hawkins, Inc is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. Hawkins shares (HWKN) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Hawkins employs 656 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Hawkins share price

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Hawkins shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-30.

52-week range	$15.78 - $39.73
50-day moving average	$34.06
200-day moving average	$29.02
Wall St. target price	$44.00
PE ratio	19.4767
Dividend yield	$0.465 (1.39%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$1.72

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Is Hawkins under- or over-valued?

Valuing Hawkins stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Hawkins's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Hawkins's P/E ratio

Hawkins's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, Hawkins shares trade at around 19x 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.

Hawkins's EBITDA

Hawkins's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $73.5 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Hawkins's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Hawkins financials

Revenue TTM	$566.3 million
Operating margin TTM	9.07%
Gross profit TTM	$101.5 million
Return on assets TTM	7.71%
Return on equity TTM	14.99%
Profit margin	6.47%
Book value	$12.28
Market capitalisation	$710.9 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Hawkins shares

There are currently 182,467 Hawkins shares held short by investors – that's known as Hawkins's "short interest". This figure is 8.2% down from 198,831 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Hawkins shares can be evaluated.

Hawkins's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Hawkins's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Hawkins shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Hawkins shares traded daily (recently around 89444.607843137). Hawkins's SIR currently stands at 2.04. In other words for every 100,000 Hawkins shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2040 shares are currently held short.

However Hawkins's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Hawkins shares, or, against the total number of tradable Hawkins shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Hawkins's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Hawkins shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0114% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Hawkins shares, roughly 11 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 Hawkins.

Find out more about how you can short Hawkins stock.

Hawkins share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 13.62% of net profits

Recently Hawkins has paid out, on average, around 13.62% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.46% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Hawkins shareholders could enjoy a 1.46% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Hawkins's case, that would currently equate to about $0.465 per share.

While Hawkins's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Hawkins is investing more in its future growth.

Hawkins's most recent dividend payout was on 25 February 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 10 February 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Hawkins's shares ever split?

Hawkins's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 1 March 2021. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Hawkins shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Hawkins shares which in turn could have impacted Hawkins's share price.

Hawkins share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Hawkins's shares have ranged in value from as little as $15.7824 up to $39.73. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Hawkins's is 0.8522. This would suggest that Hawkins's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Hawkins overview

Hawkins, Inc. blends, manufactures, and distributes chemicals and other specialty ingredients in the United States and internationally. 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. This segment primarily provides acids, alkalis, and industrial and food-grade salts. It also receives, stores, and distributes various chemicals in bulk quantities, such as liquid caustic soda, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, urea, phosphoric acid, aqua ammonia, and potassium hydroxide. In addition, this segment manufactures sodium hypochlorite and agricultural products, as well as various food-grade products that include liquid phosphates, lactates, and other blended products; repackages water treatment chemicals and bulk industrial chemicals; and performs custom blending of chemicals, and contract and private label bleach packaging.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Hawkins is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 9.59% of Hawkins shares are held by insiders and 63.449% by institutions.

• How many people work for Hawkins?

  Latest data suggests 656 work at Hawkins.

• When does the fiscal year end for Hawkins?

  Hawkins's fiscal year ends in March.

• Where is Hawkins based?

  Hawkins's address is: 2381 Rosegate, Roseville, MN, United States, 55113

• What is Hawkins's ISIN number?

  Hawkins's international securities identification number is: US4202611095

• What is Hawkins's CUSIP number?

  Hawkins's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 420200107