# AZZ Stock: The Boring Industrial That Beat, Raised Guidance, and Jumped 7%

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Published: 2026-07-09T02:42:54+00:00
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AZZ Inc. (AZZ) Q1 FY2027 — AZZ — North America's largest independent hot-dip galvanizer — grew Q1 sales 6.3% to a record $448.5M, beat with adjusted EPS of $1.85, raised full-year guidance on all three metrics, and hiked its dividend 20%; the stock jumped ~7% after hours. AZZ is a high-margin, essential industrial — galvanizing and coil coating that keeps steel from rusting — riding an infrastructure and reshoring tailwind. Q1 was a clean beat, it raised guidance across the board, deleveraged to 1.4x, and hiked the dividend 20%. At ~21x forward with our DCF near $155 vs the ~$144 pre-pop price (plus free optionality from its AVAIL stake), this is a quality-industrial-at-a-fair-price BUY. THE CALL: BUY (3/5, QUALITY INDUSTRIAL) — base-case value ~$155 vs ~$144 today. KEY METRICS: - Q1 FY27: sales $448.5M (+6.3%, a Q1 record); adjusted EPS $1.85 (+3.9%, beat $1.69); adjusted EBITDA $99.5M (22.2% margin) - GAAP EPS $1.72 (-70%) is optical — prior year had a ~$166M one-time gain from the AVAIL/electrical-business sale - Segments: Metal Coatings $210.3M (+12.3%, 30%+ EBITDA margin); Precoat Metals $238.2M (+1.5%, margin rising) - Net leverage 1.4x, guiding $130-170M more debt reduction in FY27; dividend raised 20% to $0.24/quarter - FY27 guidance RAISED on all three: sales $1.80-1.85B, adjusted EBITDA $375-415M, adjusted EPS $6.75-7.15 - Minority AVAIL JV stake excluded from guidance = free optionality on top of the core coatings business - Valuation ~$144 pre-pop (jumped ~7% AH), ~20-21x forward P/E, ~12x EV/EBITDA — reasonable for the quality - Owner-earnings DCF (base ~$175M FCF, +4%/+6%, 8-10%): ~$155 fair value vs ~$144 pre-pop — a modest margin of safety - Demand drivers: infrastructure spending + reshoring; the main risk is a cyclical construction slowdown What to wa…

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