Building Products

Below are the top small-cap general contractor stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of revenue. The trailing-twelve-month revenue at Comfort Systems USA Inc (NYSE: FIX) is $1.05 billion. FIX's ROE for the same period is 5.16%. The trailing-twelve-month revenue at MYR Group Inc (NASDAQ: MYRG)...

Analysts at Citigroup initiate coverage of Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) with a “buy” rating. The target price for OC is set to $42. OC shares gained 1.09% to close at $33.47 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Quanex Building Products Corporation (NYSE: NX) today announced it signed a definitive agreement with Lauren International to acquire Edgetech I.G. Inc. for $107.0 million in an all cash transaction. Closing will take place immediately upon conclusion of applicable governmental regulatory approval...

Insteel Industries, Inc. (NasdaqGS: IIIN) today reported a net loss of $7.6 million ($0.44 per share) for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 compared with a net loss of $1.1 million ($0.07 per share) in the first quarter of fiscal 2010. The net loss for the current year quarter includes $2.8 million...

New home sales in December rose by 17.5% from November, but only to a dismal rate of 329,000. Relative to a year ago, sales are down 7.6%. While the level was substantially better than the expected rate of 300,000, it is still a very bad level. The eight lowest months on record (back to 1963) for...

New home sales in December rose by 17.5% from November, but only to a dismal rate of 329,000. Relative to a year ago, sales are down 7.6%. While the level was substantially better than the expected rate of 300,000, it is still a very bad level. The eight lowest months on record (back to 1963) for...

USG Corporation (NYSE: USG) today reported fourth quarter 2010 net sales of $696 million, an operating loss of $95 million and a net loss of $121 million, or $1.17 per diluted share based on 102.9 million average diluted shares outstanding. In last year's fourth quarter, the operating loss was $11...

In November, home prices continued to slip, and the declines were very widespread. The Case-Schiller Composite 10 City index (C-10) fell 0.37% on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is down 0.43% from a year ago. The broader Composite 20 City index (which includes the cities in the C-10) fell by 0.54...

In November, home prices continued to slip, and the declines were very widespread. The Case-Schiller Composite 10 City index (C-10) fell 0.37% on a seasonally adjusted basis, and is down 0.43% from a year ago. The broader Composite 20 City index (which includes the cities in the C-10) fell by 0.54...

Companies can and do destroy shareholder value by buying back stock when it is overvalued. Indeed, most companies seem to be poor allocators of capital on behalf of shareholders, choosing to buy stock or take on debt when it is expensive, and hoard cash when it should be investing. But there are...

Piper Jaffray has published a research report on the 2011 Building Materials Outlook, and its key themes. In the report, Piper Jaffray writes "After attending the recent IBS 5 key themes stand out for 2011. 1) still sluggish availability of credit 2) a continuing trend toward composite/alternative...

Gibraltar Industries, Inc.'s (ROCK) MACD indicator has entered into bearish territory with a reading of -0.1048. The Zacks #5 Rank (“Strong Sell”) stock decreased more than 1% to $11.62 in morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the year ended December 2010 has decreased by 2 cents over the...

Gibraltar Industries, Inc.'s (ROCK) MACD indicator has entered into bearish territory with a reading of -0.1048. The Zacks #5 Rank (“Strong Sell”) stock decreased more than 1% to $11.62 in morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the year ended December 2010 has decreased by 2 cents over the...

In December, existing home sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.28 million. That pace is 12.3% higher than in November, but 2.9% below the year-ago rate. The year-ago rate of 5.44 million was inflated as everyone was rushing to get the deals done before they thought the first-time...