Top Home Improvement Stocks To Keep An Eye On – November 8th

Home Depot, Lowe’s Companies, Masco, Medallion Financial, and Jewett-Cameron Trading are the five Home Improvement stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Home improvement stocks are shares of companies that sell products or services for renovating, repairing, or maintaining homes, such as home improvement retailers, building-materials suppliers, and contractors. Investors often view them as a group whose performance can be influenced by housing activity, consumer spending, and interest rates. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Home Improvement stocks within the last several days.

Home Depot (HD)

The Home Depot, Inc. operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States and internationally. It sells various building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and décor products, as well as facilities maintenance, repair, and operations products. The company also offers installation services for flooring, water heaters, bath, garage doors, cabinets, cabinet makeovers, countertops, sheds, furnaces and central air systems, and windows.

HD traded down $6.46 during trading on Friday, reaching $343.48. The stock had a trading volume of 5,519,119 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,762,183. The business has a 50-day moving average of $309.42 and a 200-day moving average of $334.08. Home Depot has a one year low of $277.15 and a one year high of $397.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.64, a quick ratio of 0.31 and a current ratio of 1.08. The stock has a market cap of $342.69 billion, a PE ratio of 24.04, a PEG ratio of 2.44 and a beta of 0.93.

Lowe’s Companies (LOW)

Lowe’s Companies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States. The company offers a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. It also provides home improvement products, such as appliances, seasonal and outdoor living, lawn and garden, lumber, kitchens and bath, tools, paint, millwork, hardware, flooring, rough plumbing, building materials, décor, and electrical.

LOW stock traded down $2.11 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $225.13. 3,530,449 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,417,893. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $197.18 and a 200 day moving average price of $225.13. Lowe’s Companies has a 12 month low of $178.45 and a 12 month high of $293.06. The stock has a market capitalization of $126.31 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.03, a PEG ratio of 1.88 and a beta of 0.81.

Masco (MAS)

Masco Corporation designs, manufactures, and distributes home improvement and building products in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company's Plumbing Products segment offers faucets, showerheads, handheld showers, valves, bath hardware and accessories, bathing units, shower bases and enclosures, sinks, toilets, acrylic tubs, shower trays, spas, exercise pools, and fitness systems; brass, copper, and composite plumbing system components; connected water products; thermoplastic solutions, extruded plastic profiles, specialized fabrications, and PEX tubing products; and other non-decorative plumbing products.

Shares of Masco stock traded down $1.63 during trading on Friday, hitting $82.20. 2,603,119 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,340,586. The company has a quick ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 1.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 109.07. The stock has a market cap of $15.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.79, a PEG ratio of 1.82 and a beta of 1.21. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $72.31 and its 200-day moving average is $71.22. Masco has a 52 week low of $58.16 and a 52 week high of $87.86.

Medallion Financial (MFIN)

Medallion Financial Corp., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. It operates in four segments: Recreation Lending, Home Improvement Lending, Commercial Lending, and Taxi Medallion Lending. The company offers loans that finance consumer purchases of recreational vehicles, boats, and other consumer recreational equipment; consumer financing for window, siding, and roof replacement, swimming pool installations, and other home improvement projects; senior and subordinated loans for the purchase of equipment and related assets necessary to open a new business, or purchase or improvement of an existing business; and taxi medallion loans to individuals and small to mid-size businesses.

NASDAQ:MFIN traded up $0.07 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $9.99. The stock had a trading volume of 103,571 shares, compared to its average volume of 49,739. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $11.56 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $10.28. The stock has a market capitalization of $229.37 million, a P/E ratio of 9.00 and a beta of 0.80. Medallion Financial has a one year low of $7.85 and a one year high of $12.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.57, a quick ratio of 1.21 and a current ratio of 1.22.

Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTC)

Jewett-Cameron Trading Company Ltd. is a supplier of `Value-added` building materials to major home improvement center chains in the western United States. The Company concentrates on the residential repair and remodeling segment of the building materials industry.

NASDAQ JCTC traded down $0.01 on Friday, reaching $2.85. 1,609 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 6,081. The stock has a market cap of $10.03 million, a PE ratio of -1.21 and a beta of 0.46. Jewett-Cameron Trading has a 12 month low of $1.54 and a 12 month high of $3.32. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $2.90 and a 200 day simple moving average of $2.34.