TriMas Corporation (TRS) Stock Analysis
Consumer Cyclical · Packaging & Containers
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $38.42: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.1/10. Specifically: High short interest: 19%; Below-average business quality.
TriMas Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of products for consumer products, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets worldwide. The company operates through Packaging and Specialty Products segments. The Packaging segment offers... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $38.42: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.1/10. Specifically: High short interest: 19%; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: No recognized chart pattern (not a breakout, bounce, continuation, recovery, falling knife, or range) — technicals mixed. Score 4.1/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/6 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Revenue shrinking — -31.8% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $38.42: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.1/10. Specifically: High short interest: 19%; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: No recognized chart pattern (not a breakout, bounce, continuation, recovery, falling knife, or range) — technicals mixed. Prior stop was $35.82. Score 4.1/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $38.54 (+0.1% upside). Prior stop was $35.82. Stop-loss: $35.82.
Target reached (-0.7% upside); Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0); Value-trap signals (2/5): High leverage (D/E 2.5), Material insider selling (8 sells, 0.06% of cap).
TriMas Corporation trades at a P/E of 105.8 (forward 17.8). TrendMatrix value score: 6.3/10. Verdict: Sell.
6 analysts cover TRS with a consensus score of 4.0/5. Average price target: $45.
What does TriMas Corporation do?TriMas Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of products for consumer products,...
TriMas Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of products for consumer products, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets worldwide. The company operates through Packaging and Specialty Products segments. The Packaging segment offers dispensing products, such as foaming and sanitizer pumps, lotion and hand soap pumps, beverage dispensers, perfume sprayers, and nasal and trigger sprayers; polymeric and steel caps and closures comprising food lids, flip-top and beverage closures, child resistance caps, drum and pail closures, and flexible spouts; polymeric jar products; integrated dispensers; bag-in-box products; and consumable vascular delivery and diagnostic test components under the Rieke, Taplast, Affaba & Ferrari, Aarts Packaging, Intertech, Omega Plastics, and Rapak brands. The Specialty Products segment designs, manufactures, and distributes steel cylinders for use in transportation, storage, and dispensing of packaged and compressed gases under the Norris Cylinder brand. It sells its products through a direct sales force, third-party agents, and distributors. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.