Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) started the day on Wednesday, with a price decrease of -1.56% at $235.91, before settling in for the price of $239.66 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, APD posted a 52-week range of $212.24-$307.71.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Basic Materials sector firm’s annual sales growth was 7.59%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 8.70%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 7.09%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $222.20 million, simultaneously with a float of $218.78 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $52.44 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $236.56, while the 200-day Moving Average is $270.61.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. Air Products & Chemicals Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.58%, in contrast to 84.42% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Dec 05 ’23, this organization’s VP, Controller & PAO sold 107 shares at the rate of 264.74, making the entire transaction reach 28,327 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 1,270. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 13 ’23, Company’s Chairman, Pres. and CEO bought 11,000 for 264.42, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 2,908,620. This particular insider is now the holder of 670,673 in total.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) Earnings and Revenue Records
In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 12/30/2023, the organization reported $2.82 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, lower than the consensus estimate (set at $3) by -$0.18. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.3 per share during the current fiscal year.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 7.09% and is forecasted to reach 13.45 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.70% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 8.70% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.58. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 4.11. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $22.56, and its Beta score is 0.81. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.22.
In the same vein, APD’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 10.46, a figure that is expected to reach 2.70 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 13.45 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.15 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 1.75 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 22.41% While, its Average True Range was 3.93.
Raw Stochastic average of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 36.29%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 12.30% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 16.26% that was lower than 32.48% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
