Masco Corp (MAS)

With the huge number of foreclosures that have been made or announced it seems obvious that a good portion of those homes will need to be remodeled in order to get them ready to sell. A company like Masco is ideally situated to benefit from this particular type of remodeling. With its cabinet, counter, plumbing, etc. products Masco can expect a substantial increase in product demand over the next year or so in order to reduce the inventory of repo'd homes.

Economic recovery play

This stock was chosen as part of a group of stocks based upon criteria which focused heavily on dividend yield, cash flow, and balance sheet information.

US consumers will not give up LOVE of HOME. An whne you can;t afford furniture - you might as well have a good looking functional house!

Until the economy gets much better I do not think MAS will get to its $30 range. It may get to $15 witthin the next 2 years.

once, the economy is stable, and hausing market retun those product of mas are esential.

A rebound still remains far off for MAS.

bullish rsi

Has Increased Dividend even in bad times and low Interest, Lower Oil and bottom of Housing market means only one direction- UP

People will continue to work on and maintain there houses

This stock is a play on an economic turnaround, which I would expect to see within the next 2-4 years. The company is a supplier of home construction/remodeling items such as paint and cabinets (they supply to Home Depot).

The company carries a lot of debt but has a very good current ratio and a fair debt to equity ratio. That makes me feel better about the pile of debt it has, though I sure would like to see a lower debt burden.

The current P/E is high at 38.61 which makes me think that there is downside here, but once we take into account that earnings are way down due to the housing slump we can understand that they are just selling less product we can understand why. I believe that earnings will rebound within 4 years. I will be buying in when it falls further.

This stock also has a dividend at yield at 5.39, which even if the stock price parallels the S&P 500 Investors will be ahead.

housing bttm

Jim Cramer Buy recommendation with expectations of housing market to bottom out in 281 days. Says that it will consistently perform through crisis.

At $14.48, Masco is a bargain. The company isn't waiting for the housing market to rebound. It's cutting costs and trimming down to be profitable in the current economy. I expect quarterly results to start improving this year because of this effort. When housing starts to modestly come back, Masco will jump significantly. In the meantime, it's paying $.92 annual dividend while we wait. That's well in excess of 6%!

Horrible stock right now ,housing sucks and having worked for them ,they have a terrible management team .The Contractor services part is run by idiots and they will probably sell off this part by 2009

director buying shares

hhh

housing has to bounce back

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