American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [NYSE: AXL] closed the trading session at $4.29 on 2025-06-19. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of $4.16, while the highest price level was $4.34.
The stocks have a year to date performance of -26.42 percent and weekly performance of -5.30 percent. The stock has been moved at -35.10 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed -5.30 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed -6.94 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 2.81M shares, AXL reached to a volume of 4395682 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [AXL]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for AXL shares is $5.20 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on AXL stock is a recommendation set at 2.88. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
TD Cowen have made an estimate for American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Hold, with their previous recommendation back on March 07, 2025. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Deutsche Bank raised their target price to Hold. The new note on the price target was released on September 10, 2024, representing the official price target for American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $7, while UBS analysts kept a Neutral rating on AXL stock. On January 17, 2024, analysts decreased their price target for AXL shares from 8 to 6.50.
The Average True Range (ATR) for American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc is set at 0.19, with the Price to Sales ratio for AXL stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 0.09. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 0.85, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 4.63. Price to Free Cash Flow for AXL in the course of the last twelve months was 2.39 with Quick ratio for the last quarter at 1.35.
AXL stock trade performance evaluation
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [AXL] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -5.30. With this latest performance, AXL shares dropped by -5.30% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -35.10% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -37.92% in the past year of trading.
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [AXL]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [AXL] shares currently have an operating margin of 4.34% and a Gross Margin at 10.74%. American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 0.35%.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 0.39%, with Return on Assets sitting at 0.39%.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [AXL] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for AXL. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc go to 18.93%.
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc [AXL]: Institutional Ownership
There are presently around $114.81%, or 120.56%% of AXL stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of AXL stocks are: BLACKROCK INC. with ownership of 18.57 million shares, which is approximately 15.7911%. VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 14.65 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$102.39 million in AXL stocks shares; and VANGUARD GROUP INC, currently with $$57.8 million in AXL stock with ownership which is approximately 7.0312%.
