Eagle Materials (EXP) just posted quarterly results that showed higher sales but lower profit compared with a year earlier, a mix that often forces investors to reassess how much they are willing to pay for the stock.
Eagle Materials shares have pulled back, with a 7 day share price return of down 7.0% and a 90 day share price return of down 11.8%, even though the 30 day share price return is up 12.6% and the 5 year total shareholder return is 18.2%.
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Eagle Materials now trades below both analyst targets and some intrinsic estimates after that pullback. Is the fair value closer to the market’s cooler view, or to the richer modelled range investors are eyeing next?
Most Popular Narrative: 6% Undervalued
On the analyst consensus Narrative on Simply Wall St, Eagle Materials screens as modestly undervalued, with a fair value of $195.50 against a last close of $184.24. This puts the share price at a single digit discount to those modelled cash flows.
Substantial ongoing federal and state infrastructure funding, together with robust data center and nonresidential construction that now make up about 80% of Eagle Materials heavy side exposure, is supporting strong cement and aggregates volumes and can continue to underpin revenue and earnings as these multi year project pipelines are worked through.
See why 7 investors see Eagle Materials as 6% undervalued.
Result: Fair Value of $195.50 (UNDERVALUED)
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Another View: Eagle Materials Through The P/E Lens
The SWS DCF workup points to Eagle Materials trading at a 36% discount to an estimate of future cash flow value, while the P/E picture looks tighter. The stock sits at 14.9x earnings, fractionally above the global Basic Materials group at 14.8x and roughly in line with a 14.8x fair ratio, which keeps the question open. Is this really a discount story, or just fairly priced with solid execution risk on top?
For a closer look at how that single earnings multiple stacks up against peers and the fair ratio, review the valuation breakdown in the See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown..
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