In last trading session, Argan, Inc (NYSE:AGX) saw 0.43 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.48. Company’s recent per share price level of $188.50 trading at $5.18 or 2.83% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $2.57B. That closing price of AGX’s stock is at a discount of -1.57% from its 52-week high price of $191.46 and is indicating a premium of 66.3% from its 52-week low price of $63.53. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.31 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 383.15K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Argan, Inc (AGX), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 1 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 1.09 in the current quarter.
Argan, Inc (NYSE:AGX) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 2.83%, in the last five days AGX remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 05/16/25 when the stock touched $188.50 price level, adding 0.26% to its value on the day. Argan, Inc’s shares saw a change of 37.55% in year-to-date performance and have moved 10.70% in past 5-day. Argan, Inc (NYSE:AGX) showed a performance of 26.75% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 0.84 million shares which calculate 1.95 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 85 to the stock, which implies a fall of -121.76% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 85 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 85. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 54.91% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 54.91% for stock’s current value.
Argan, Inc (AGX) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 9.32% from the last financial year’s standing.
2 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 193.75M for the same. And 2 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 213.35M in the next quarter. Company posted 157.68M and 227.01M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -6.10% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 14.70%.
AGX Dividends
Argan, Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-26 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 0.76%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.43 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.17%.
Argan, Inc (NYSE:AGX)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 4.50% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 89.25 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 93.46%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 89.25% institutions for Argan, Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at AGX for having 1.25 million shares of worth $91.16 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.2969 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is RIVER ROAD ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC, which was holding about 0.78 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 5.8257 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $57.12 million.
On the other hand, American Century ETF Trust-Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 408.47 shares of worth $77.0 million or 2.99% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 401.64 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $75.71 million in the company or a holder of 2.94% of company’s stock.
