ASTE Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Astec Industries | NASDAQ:ASTE)

Astec Industries Inc designs and manufactures equipment and components used in road construction and other development activities. Its products are used through the entire process of building roads, from mining and crushing materials to creating the road surface. The company manufactures a line of plants, pavers, vehicles, and machines to mix and transform materials into construction components. It has two operating segments: infrastructure solutions generating maximum revenue and materials solutions. The majority of sales are derived from the United States. Its customers are asphalt producers, highway and heavy equipment contractors, ready mix concrete producers, demolition recycling markets, sand and gravel producers, open mine operators, quarry operators, and others.

Astec Industries trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol ASTE.

As of January 23, 2026, ASTE stock price declined to $48.29 with 194,246 million shares trading.

ASTE has a beta of 1.48, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ASTE has a correlation of 0.43 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ASTE has a market cap of $1.10 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Astec Industries reported $350 million in Revenue and $.47 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $17 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.06.

In the last 3 years, ASTE traded as high as $56.33 and as low as $28.46.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ASTE belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, PAVE, VTI, IWM, AVUV.

ASTE has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +38.9% while the SPY ETF gained +14.2%. However, in the short term, ASTE had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +0.6% vs +2.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, ASTE shares have fared better than the market returning +1.7% compared to SPY -0.7%.

ASTE support price is $48.54 and resistance is $51.04 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ASTE shares will trade within this expected range on the day.