Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) last year’s performance of -2.77% is a clear signal for an entertaining trading season.

On Tuesday, Genuine Parts Co. (NYSE: GPC) was -0.70% down from the session before settling in for the closing price of $153.61. A 52-week range for GPC has been $126.35 – $174.91.

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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 4.72% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 4.81%. With a float of $139.06 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $139.57 million.

The firm has a total of 60000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity.

Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Genuine Parts Co. stocks. The insider ownership of Genuine Parts Co. is 0.26%, while institutional ownership is 80.09%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 20 ’24, was worth 503,490. In this transaction Director of this company sold 3,250 shares at a rate of $154.92, taking the stock ownership to the 14,397 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jun 02 ’23, when Company’s Director bought 2,000 for $151.75, making the entire transaction worth $303,500. This insider now owns 33,162 shares in total.

Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) Recent Fiscal highlights

Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 12/30/2023, it has been observed that the corporation posted $2.26 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at $2.19) by $0.07. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.58 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 4.81% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.10% during the next five years compared to 11.14% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Genuine Parts Co. (NYSE: GPC) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.63. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.92. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 23.04.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 9.33, a number that is poised to hit 2.16 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 10.65 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Genuine Parts Co. (GPC)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Genuine Parts Co., GPC], we can find that recorded value of 0.78 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.02 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 43.91%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.21.

During the past 100 days, Genuine Parts Co.’s (GPC) raw stochastic average was set at 82.61%, which indicates a significant increase from 32.04% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.22% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 16.39% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $146.88, while its 200-day Moving Average is $147.17. Now, the first resistance to watch is $153.52. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $154.51. The third major resistance level sits at $155.24. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $151.80, it is likely to go to the next support level at $151.07. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $150.08.

Genuine Parts Co. (NYSE: GPC) Key Stats

There are 139,423K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 21.27 billion. As of now, sales total 23,091 M while income totals 1,317 M. Its latest quarter income was 5,586 M while its last quarter net income were 316,880 K.