Stocks · Real Estate · Real Estate - Development
J.W. Mays, Inc. MAYS
$39.09 -2.53% Close, Oct 5, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $80.3M
Expensive vs sector
Next earnings report: Oct 7, 2026
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Three things to know
- Net debt is 35.7× EBITDA, a high level of leverage.
- Operating margin narrowed to -7.7% from -0.5% a year earlier.
- The stock is in a downtrend: below its 200-day average, with the 50-day average below the 200-day.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Real Estate sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 6, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 16%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRBottom 27%
- Revenue growth accelerationBottom 20%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 13%
- Gross marginBottom 14%
- Operating marginBottom 8%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 49%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Bottom 6%
- Interest coverBottom 2%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 24%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 19%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 10%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 24%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 28%
- 6-month returnTop 48%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 32%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 21%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Bottom 23%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 36%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 35%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 4%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Bottom 6%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -1.3% | -3.9% | ↓ |
| Gross margin | 30.5% | 5.5% | ↓ |
| Operating margin | -0.5% | -7.7% | ↓ |
| FCF margin | -1.0% | -7.5% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | -3.9% | -1.3% | ↓ | Bottom 16% |
| Gross margin | 5.5% | 30.5% | ↓ | Bottom 14% |
| Operating margin | -7.7% | -0.5% | ↓ | Bottom 8% |
| Net margin | -5.4% | -0.3% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -7.5% | -1.0% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | -1.3% | — | Bottom 13% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 1.6% | — | Bottom 27% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -3.3%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.0%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +15.2 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- 35.74×
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- -244.9×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 0.00%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- 0.00%
- Shareholder yield
- 0.00%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +0.0%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +0.0%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Apr 30, 2026 (filed Jun 11, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- -0.3%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 3 of 8
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2026 | — | +1.2% | +0.8% | -7.6% | +3.2% |
| Mar 12, 2026 | — | -1.4% | -7.7% | -13.0% | -10.6% |
| Dec 11, 2025 | — | -0.7% | -0.7% | +3.8% | +22.0% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | — | +0.0% | +0.0% | +0.0% | +4.7% |
| Jun 12, 2025 | — | +0.0% | +0.0% | +1.7% | +1.8% |
| Mar 13, 2025 | — | +0.0% | +1.6% | -4.0% | -0.7% |
| Dec 12, 2024 | — | -1.1% | -1.1% | +1.1% | -13.6% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | — | +0.0% | +1.2% | -3.4% | +1.1% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2026 | -$0.11 | — | — | $5.3M |
| Mar 12, 2026 | -$0.25 | — | — | $5.2M |
| Dec 11, 2025 | -$0.17 | — | — | $5.3M |
| Oct 23, 2025 | -$0.05 | — | — | $5.7M |
| Jun 12, 2025 | $0.04 | — | — | $5.6M |
| Mar 13, 2025 | -$0.08 | — | — | $5.6M |
| Dec 12, 2024 | $0.01 | — | — | $5.5M |
| Oct 24, 2024 | -$0.01 | — | — | $5.5M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV / EBITDA | 139.6× | — | — | Bottom 10% |
| EV / Sales | 5.04× | — | — | Top 24% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -2.01% | — | — | Bottom 19% |
| Earnings yield | -1.47% | — | — | Bottom 24% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 171.5× – 314.4× since Jul 31, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✗ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- +1.6%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.5%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -3.7%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -4.9%
- RSI (14)
- 33.9
- Relative volume
- 0.00×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 21.1%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 22th percentile · Normal for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.06
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.02
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -28.9%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -30.9%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2022 | Feb 24, 2025 | -37.7% | 548 days | Not yet recovered |
| Mar 3, 2021 | May 20, 2021 | -19.1% | 55 days | 29 days (Jul 1, 2021) |
| Jul 30, 2021 | Aug 18, 2021 | -18.1% | 13 days | 19 days (Sep 15, 2021) |
| Jul 21, 2020 | Sep 2, 2020 | -17.8% | 31 days | 20 days (Oct 1, 2020) |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | -15.6% | 22 days | 23 days (Nov 19, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $80.3M
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$0.58
- Revenue (TTM)
- $21.4M
- 52-week range
- $37.55 – $61.99
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $20.2M | $21.4M | $22.6M | $21.6M | $22.5M |
| Gross profit | $5.9M | $6.7M | $7.2M | $6.4M | $5.0M |
| Operating income | -$837,783 | -$657,007 | $223,667 | -$620,105 | -$154,332 |
| Net income | $398,032 | -$712,371 | -$82,964 | -$406,568 | -$136,240 |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.20 | -$0.35 | -$0.04 | -$0.20 | -$0.07 |
| Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $5.5M | $5.5M | $5.6M | $5.6M | $5.7M | $5.3M | $5.2M | $5.3M |
| Net income | -$31,085 | $26,657 | -$157,681 | $86,784 | -$92,000 | -$334,027 | -$508,960 | -$216,863 |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.02 | $0.01 | -$0.08 | $0.04 | -$0.05 | -$0.17 | -$0.25 | -$0.11 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $1.1M | $1.7M | $2.2M | $1.4M | $2.5M |
| Capital expenditure | -$2.3M | -$1.7M | -$1.0M | -$2.5M | -$2.4M |
| Free cash flow | -$1.2M | -$44,269 | $1.2M | -$1.0M | $128,349 |
| Dividends paid | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.1M
- Total assets
- $90.2M
- Total liabilities
- $38.5M
- Total debt
- $30.8M
- Net debt
- $27.6M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $51.7M
As of Apr 30, 2026 (filed Jun 11, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 5,905
- Days to cover
- 7.56
- Change vs previous report
- +35.3%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.