News coverage about AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) has been trending positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. AAON earned a media sentiment score of 0.27 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned headlines about the construction company an impact score of 45.6008173610945 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next several days.
Here are some of the news articles that may have effected Accern’s rankings:
- Canal Capital Management LLC Sells 466 Shares of Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) (badhub.net)
- Serviceability, Flexibility Earn Aaon’s WH Series DDA Gold (achrnews.com)
- AAON (AAON) vs. Thermon Group Holdings (THR) Head to Head Comparison (americanbankingnews.com)
- AAON, Inc. breached its 50 day moving average in a Bearish Manner : AAON-US : July 25, 2017 (finance.yahoo.com)
- Thermon Group Holdings (THR) and AAON (AAON) Head to Head Review (americanbankingnews.com)
Shares of AAON (AAON) traded down 0.929% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, reaching $34.675. The company had a trading volume of 80,181 shares. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $36.95 and a 200 day moving average price of $35.60. AAON has a 12-month low of $25.33 and a 12-month high of $38.20. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.82 billion, a PE ratio of 35.747 and a beta of 0.98.
AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 4th. The construction company reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.01. AAON had a return on equity of 25.28% and a net margin of 13.43%. The company had revenue of $86.10 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $87.58 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.22 earnings per share. AAON’s revenue was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts forecast that AAON will post $1.08 earnings per share for the current year.
The firm also recently disclosed a semiannual dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 7th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 9th were given a $0.13 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, June 7th. This represents a dividend yield of 0.73%. AAON’s dividend payout ratio is currently 27.08%.
Several analysts have recently weighed in on AAON shares. Zacks Investment Research cut AAON from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Monday, May 8th. BidaskClub cut AAON from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, June 30th.
In other news, VP Scott M. Asbjornson sold 9,815 shares of AAON stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $36.71, for a total value of $360,308.65. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 860,165 shares in the company, valued at approximately $31,576,657.15. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. 22.25% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
About AAON
AAON, Inc is engaged in the engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sale of air conditioning and heating equipment consisting of standard, semi-custom and custom rooftop units, chillers, packaged outdoor mechanical rooms, air handling units, makeup air units, energy recovery units, condensing units, geothermal/water-source heat pumps and coils.
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