Promising Home Improvement Stocks To Follow Today – November 13th

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 used to renovate, repair, or maintain homes, such as hardware retailers, building-material manufacturers, and home-service providers. Investors often view them as a way to gain exposure to renovation spending and housing-market trends, though their performance can also depend on consumer confidence 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.

Shares of HD traded down $0.40 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $347.86. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,344,689 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,469,416. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $311.57 and its two-hundred day moving average is $333.42. The firm has a market capitalization of $347.06 billion, a PE ratio of 24.34, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.60 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.64, a quick ratio of 0.31 and a current ratio of 1.08. Home Depot has a one year low of $277.15 and a one year high of $397.63.

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 $0.03 on Friday, reaching $227.43. 1,626,268 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,998,241. Lowe’s Companies has a 12 month low of $178.45 and a 12 month high of $293.06. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $199.39 and its 200 day moving average price is $224.22. The firm has a market capitalization of $127.60 billion, a PE ratio of 19.22, a PEG ratio of 1.99 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.

Masco stock traded up $0.10 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $84.58. The company had a trading volume of 753,628 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,565,227. The company has a quick ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 1.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 109.07. Masco has a 52 week low of $58.16 and a 52 week high of $87.86. The company has a 50 day moving average of $73.38 and a 200-day moving average of $71.54. The firm has a market cap of $16.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.30, a PEG ratio of 1.88 and a beta of 1.21.

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.

Shares of NASDAQ:MFIN traded up $0.12 on Friday, hitting $9.46. 39,382 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 66,583. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $11.36 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $10.27. 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 0.52, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a current ratio of 1.23. The firm has a market capitalization of $212.21 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.52 and a beta of 0.80.

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.

Shares of NASDAQ JCTC traded up $0.04 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $2.88. The company had a trading volume of 1,635 shares, compared to its average volume of 21,137. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $2.89 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.35. Jewett-Cameron Trading has a 12 month low of $1.54 and a 12 month high of $3.32. The firm has a market cap of $10.16 million, a P/E ratio of -1.23 and a beta of 0.46.