What Happened?
Shares of building materials manufacturer UFP Industries (NASDAQ: UFPI) fell 6.7% in the morning session after the company reported disappointing Q1 2025 results: revenue, EPS, and EBITDA fell short of Wall Street's estimates. Sales declined slightly, driven by lower organic unit sales and modest price declines, with particularly sharp drops in the Retail and Packaging segments, offset only partially by slight growth in Construction. Overall, this was a weaker quarter.
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What The Market Is Telling Us
UFP Industries’s shares are not very volatile and have only had 7 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful, although it might not be something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
UFP Industries is down 8.1% since the beginning of the year, and at $102.20 per share, it is trading 26.5% below its 52-week high of $139.02 from November 2024. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of UFP Industries’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $2,355.
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