ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC.
At today's price, ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. (AWI) is priced for +10.2% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $157.79 the price pays about 18x company-wide operating income, implying roughly 11.4% operating growth a year for five years. Only the growth DCF reaches the price; asset, earnings-power, and peer-multiple frames all say richly valued, the signature of a durability premium. Armstrong is a high-margin ceilings franchise, with current operating margin near 26% and trailing ROE around 34% on a thin book. Those returns are why the static valuation floors understate it: the value sits in pricing
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460 institutional managers reported holding AWI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 55 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 1.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AWI has cut its share count 10.3% over the past five years, spending $594.60M on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 7 years running, raised 6 years straight; the current rate is $1.26 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $144.30M in dividends and $322.60M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AWI over the trailing three years: 2026: 1 buy totaling $100k. 14 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AWI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-26 | +3.2% | -9.3% |
| 2023-10-25 | +5.0% | +36.9% |
| 2024-02-21 | +13.3% | -2.6% |
| 2024-05-01 | -4.0% | -1.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AWI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-17 (items 5.07, 8.01); 2026-05-11 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-24 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-02 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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