Designs cold roll formed steel profiles. Customizes steel profiles to meet specific client needs. Now — the numbers.
This is an established company with proven profits.
No real growth (-3% a year). Red columns mark years that ended in a loss.
The gap is $9.6M. In times of high interest rates, a gap like that can squeeze a company.
The market pays 46.5× for every dollar this company earns in a year — a price that already assumes things go well.
Against companies in its own sector, it looks cheaper than 27% of them.
No analyst target is on record for this company.
We compared this company with its own sector across five subjects.
A score of 50 means class average.
Profit indicators sit around the sector average.
A solid grade overall — yet the debt outweighs the cash. The strength here comes from earnings power.
Clearly below the class average.
There is growth, but not at top-of-the-class tempo.
The stock has been running stronger than the market lately.
Valuation: The stock trades at a price that looks expensive next to its earnings; that can cap future returns.
An investor who bought at the very peak is down 77% today. The business is the same; what changed most is the price — and the expectations — the market pins on it.
Our checks did not surface a specific strength to highlight here.
Over the last 4 years, sales fell about 3% a year on average. Profit is holding up, but a shrinking business is a risk worth watching.
The company’s market value is 47 times its annual profit. Even a small disappointment could hit the price hard.
On our five-subject report card, HLP sits in the middle of the class: some subjects shine, others don’t. The grade moves as the numbers move.
The takeaway: HLP is an established business that has proven its profits for years. The real debate isn’t the quality of the business — it’s whether the price paid for the stock is too high.
Not covered, because the filings we hold do not carry it: earnings execution, the revenue breakdown.