How to buy Tredegar Corporation stock

Tredegar Corporation is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. Tredegar Corporation shares (TG) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Tredegar Corporation employs 2,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Tredegar Corporation share price

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Tredegar Corporation shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-23.

52-week range	$8.82 - $18.38
50-day moving average	$15.94
200-day moving average	$16.30
Wall St. target price	$17.00
PE ratio	163.7778
Dividend yield	$0.48 (3.23%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$0.09

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Is Tredegar Corporation under- or over-valued?

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

Tredegar Corporation's P/E ratio

Tredegar 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 164x. In other words, Tredegar Corporation shares trade at around 164x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Tredegar Corporation's EBITDA

Tredegar Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $96.4 million.

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

Tredegar Corporation financials

Revenue TTM	$755.3 million
Operating margin TTM	9.29%
Gross profit TTM	$170.9 million
Return on assets TTM	7.14%
Return on equity TTM	-6.93%
Profit margin	-9.99%
Book value	$3.28
Market capitalisation	$513.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Tredegar Corporation shares

There are currently 530,314 Tredegar Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Tredegar Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 11.9% down from 602,051 last month.

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

Tredegar Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Tredegar Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Tredegar Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Tredegar Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 186075.0877193). Tredegar Corporation's SIR currently stands at 2.85. In other words for every 100,000 Tredegar Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2850 shares are currently held short.

However Tredegar Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Tredegar Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Tredegar Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Tredegar Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Tredegar Corporation shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0297% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Tredegar Corporation shares, roughly 30 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 Tredegar Corporation.

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Tredegar Corporation share dividends

We're not expecting Tredegar Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Tredegar Corporation's shares ever split?

Tredegar Corporation's shares were split on a 3:1 basis on 1 July 1998. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Tredegar Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 66.7% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Tredegar Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Tredegar Corporation's share price.

Tredegar Corporation share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Tredegar Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $8.8224 up to $18.38. 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 Tredegar Corporation's is 0.9493. This would suggest that Tredegar Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Tredegar Corporation overview

Tredegar Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells aluminum extrusions, PE Films, and polyester films in the United States and internationally. It operates through Aluminum Extrusions, PE Films, and Flexible Packaging Films segments. The Aluminum Extrusions segment produces soft-alloy and medium-strength aluminum extrusions primarily for building and construction, automotive and transportation, consumer durables, machinery and equipment, electrical and renewable energy, and distribution markets; and manufactures mill, anodized, and painted and fabricated aluminum extrusions to fabricators and distributors. The PE Films segment offers single- and multi-layer surface protection films for protecting components of flat panel displays used in televisions, monitors, notebooks, smart phones, tablets, e-readers, and digital signage under the UltraMask, ForceField, ForceField PEARL, and Pearl A brands. This segment also provides thin-gauge films for bathroom tissue and paper towels, as well as polyethylene overwrap films and films for other markets. The Flexible Packaging Films segment offers polyester-based films for food packaging and industrial applications under the Terphane and Sealphane brands. Tredegar Corporation was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Tredegar Corporation is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 23.587% of Tredegar Corporation shares are held by insiders and 67.418% by institutions.

• How many people work for Tredegar Corporation?

  Latest data suggests 2,400 work at Tredegar Corporation.

• When does the fiscal year end for Tredegar Corporation?

  Tredegar Corporation's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Tredegar Corporation based?

  Tredegar Corporation's address is: 1100 Boulders Parkway, Richmond, VA, United States, 23225

• What is Tredegar Corporation's ISIN number?

  Tredegar Corporation's international securities identification number is: US8946501009

• What is Tredegar Corporation's CUSIP number?

  Tredegar Corporation's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 894650100