Did You Buy Hillenbrand Recently? Here's What You May Have Missed.

By Susan Ramirez • Tuesday, September 06 15:34 • Permanent Link

Hillenbrand is one of the market's biggest losers of the day, with its price tumbling -9.0%. You might be asking yourself if it's time to buy the dip for HI. Don't make a decision without checking out some essential facts about the stock and its valuation at today's prices:

Hillenbrand has moved -5.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -13.2%
HI has an average analyst rating of strong_buy and is -45.08% away from its mean target price of $67.25 per share
Its trailing 12 month price to earnings (Eps) is $2.82 per share
Hillenbrand has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 13.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward 12 month price to earnings (Eps) is $4.21 per share and its forward P/E ratio is 8.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.3 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Hillenbrand is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 21.9 and an average P/B of 3.75
HI has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 28.3% and gross profit margins of 32.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $180,737,504, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Hillenbrand, Inc. operates as a diversified industrial company in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Advanced Process Solutions, Molding Technology Solutions, and Batesville. The Advanced Process Solutions segment designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and services process and material handling equipment and systems comprising compounding, extrusion, and material handling equipment, as well as offers equipment system design services; and provides screening and separating equipment for various industries, including plastics, food and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, fertilizers, minerals, energy, wastewater treatment, forest products, and other general industrials. The Molding Technology Solutions segment offers injection molding and extrusion equipment; hot runner systems; process control systems; and mold bases and components for various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, medical, packaging, construction, and electronics. The Batesville segment designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells funeral services products and solutions, such as burial caskets, cremation caskets, containers and urns, other personalization and memorialization products, and web-based technology applications. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Batesville, Indiana.

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