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American Axle & Manufact. Holdings – EPS of $0.48, better than the estimates

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American Axle & Manufact. Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AXL). Last Market Price: 9.98, Change: +0.04, % Change: (0.40%). Shares trade in the range of 9.38 – 10.13 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 751.84M dollars, making it a Small Cap Stock and has 75.33M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 2.51, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 2.14; P/E of 4.66 indicating that the stock may be undervalued. It operates in Consumer Cyclical sector and belongs to Auto and Truck Parts industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 81%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 6.77 – 16.20. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 2,010,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 1,330,000, 0.66 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $0.48 ,better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 4.8% year/year to $647.6 million

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 6.98%, an Operating margin of 10.00%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 8.81%. The organization has an employee strength of 7,850.

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 2,578.53 million dollars, an estimate high of 2,626.40 million dollars and an estimate low of 2,516.45 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 2,360.58 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Dec-12 show a mean of 2,833.97 million dollars, an estimate high of 3,218.40 million dollars and an estimate low of 2,653.40 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 2,574.60 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 2.05 dollars, an estimate high of 2.27 dollars and an estimate low of 1.87 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1.36 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Dec-12 show a mean of 2.08 dollars, an estimate high of 2.28 dollars and an estimate low of 1.76 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1.56 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 631.93 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 686.20 million dollars, 54.27 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 593.91 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 645.60 million dollars, 51.69 million dollars more than estimates.

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Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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