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Here's Why American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL) is a Strong Momentum Stock

Zacks Equity Research
·2 min read

It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.

Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?

For momentum investors, upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook take precedent, so they'll want to zero in on the Momentum Style Score. This Score can pinpoint good times to build a position in a stock, using factors like one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates.

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American Axle & Manufacturing (AXL)

Detroit-based American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. is a leading supplier of driveline and drivetrain systems, modules and components for the light vehicle market. It manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. The company operates with around 80 facilities in 18 countries. American Axle’s major customers include General Motors, Stellantis and Ford.

AXL is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock, with a Momentum Style Score of A and VGM Score of A. Shares are up 6.2% over the past one week and up 2.2% over the past four weeks. AXL has gained 5.2% in the last one-year period as well. Looking at trading volume, an average of 1,226,540.38 shares exchanged hands over the last 20 trading days.

Momentum investors don't just pay attention to price changes; positive earnings play a crucial role, too. Three analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days for fiscal 2024. The Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.09 to $0.34 per share. AXL boasts an average earnings surprise of 0.5%.

AXL should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.

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