Big Money Sentiment increased to 1.02 in Q4 2018. It has change of 0.17, from 2018Q3’s 0.85. The ratio is positive due to Colfax Corporation positioning: 35 sold and 58 reduced. 47 funds acquired positions and 48 increased positions. Investors holded 91.31 million in 2018Q3 but now own 91.33 million shares or 0.02% more.
24,812 are owned by Bridgewater Associates Ltd Partnership. Jacobs Levy Equity Mngmt, a New Jersey-based fund reported 152,200 shs. Bank & Trust Of America De reported 274,445 shs stake. Ledyard Commercial Bank has invested 0% of its capital in Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX). North Star Invest Mngmt Corp stated it has 180 shs or 0% of all its holdings. Royal Bank Of Canada holds 0% or 89,079 shs in its capital. California Pub Employees Retirement has 253,639 shs for 0.01% of their capital. Moreover, Bancorp Of New York Mellon has 0% invested in Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) for 267,765 shs. Brown Advisory holds 0% or 15,553 shs in its capital. Renaissance Techs Limited Liability Co invested in 341,200 shs. Stone Ridge Asset Mngmt Ltd accumulated 16,260 shs or 0.02% of the stock. Horizon Kinetics Lc reported 129,047 shs or 0.09% of all its holdings. Millennium Ltd Liability holds 0.03% or 1.04 million shs. Tudor Investment Corp Et Al has 73,125 shs for 0.03% of their capital. Geode Capital Ltd Llc invested 0.01% in Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX).

Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) is anticipated to announce earnings on May, 2., according to Zacks. Last year’s EPS was $0.48, while now analysts expect change of 6.25 % up from current $0.51 EPS. If reported the P/E will be 15.03 with $59.95 million profit. After $0.69 EPS was published last quarter, analysts now see negative EPS growth of -26.09 % for Colfax Corporation. The stock increased 0.76% or $0.23 during the last trading session, reaching $30.66.Currently Colfax Corporation is downtrending after 16.52% change in last April 17, 2018. CFX has 841,692 shares volume. The stock underperformed the S&P 500 by 20.89%.

Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) Ratings Coverage

In total 8 analysts cover Colfax (NYSE:CFX). “Buy” rating has 5, “Sell” are 1, while 2 are “Hold”. (NYSE:CFX) has 63% bullish analysts. 13 are the (NYSE:CFX)’s ratings reports on Apr 17, 2019 according to StockzIntelligence Inc. On Monday, March 25 KeyBanc Capital Markets maintained Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) with “Buy” rating. On Thursday, March 14 Morgan Stanley maintained the shares of CFX in report with “Hold” rating. On Thursday, March 7 Cowen & Co maintained Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) rating. Cowen & Co has “Buy” rating and $34 target. On Wednesday, March 13 the rating was maintained by Citigroup with “Sell”. On Wednesday, March 20 the stock of Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) has “Buy” rating given by Longbow. On Tuesday, February 19 the rating was maintained by Morgan Stanley with “Hold”. On Monday, October 29 the firm earned “Buy” rating by Argus Research. On Monday, December 17 the rating was maintained by Barclays Capital with “Underweight”. The stock rating was maintained by Morgan Stanley with “Equal-Weight” on Tuesday, October 30. On Tuesday, November 20 the rating was upgraded by Melius Research to “Neutral”.

Colfax Corporation, an industrial manufacturing and engineering company, provides gas and fluid handling, and fabrication technology services and products worldwide.The firm is worth $3.60 billion. The firm operates through two divisions, Gas and Fluid Handling, and Fabrication Technology.The P/E ratio is 26.32. The Gas and Fluid Handling segment designs, makes, supplies, installs, and maintains heavy-duty centrifugal and axial fans, rotary heat exchangers, gas compressors, pumps, fluid handling systems, controls, and specialty valves.

Another two news for Colfax Corporation (NYSE:CFX) were briefly posted by: Globenewswire.com on January 28, 2019 with title “Colfax Announces Offering of Senior Notes NYSE:CFX – GlobeNewswire”. The other Seekingalpha.com‘s article was titled “Colfax Q4 2018 Earnings Preview – Seeking Alpha” and posted on February 12, 2019.