Paccar Inc. (PCAR) EPS is poised to hit 2.20 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

Paccar Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) started the day on Wednesday, with a price increase of 0.37% at $113.74, before settling in for the price of $113.32 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, PCAR posted a 52-week range of $66.17-$125.50.

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It was noted that the giant of the Industrials sector posted annual sales growth of 10.45% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 16.07%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -14.74%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $523.30 million, simultaneously with a float of $514.58 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $59.60 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $116.01, while the 200-day Moving Average is $96.39.

Paccar Inc. (PCAR) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry. Paccar Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.80%, in contrast to 66.45% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 12 ’24, this organization’s PRESIDENT & CFO sold 32,797 shares at the rate of 106.08, making the entire transaction reach 3,479,024 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 103,547. Preceding that transaction, on Feb 12 ’24, Company’s VICE PRESIDENT sold 2,000 for 106.15, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 212,300. This particular insider is now the holder of 5,726 in total.

Paccar Inc. (PCAR) Earnings and Revenue Records

In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 12/31/2023, the organization reported 2.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, surpassing the consensus estimate (set at 1.81) by 0.44. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.1 per share during the current fiscal year.

Paccar Inc.’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -14.74% and is forecasted to reach 8.71 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.76% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 16.07% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Paccar Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Paccar Inc. (PCAR). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.89. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 2.36. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $12.98, and its Beta score is 0.94. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.70. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 20.36.

In the same vein, PCAR’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 8.76, a figure that is expected to reach 2.20 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 8.71 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Paccar Inc. (PCAR)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Paccar Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR), its last 5-days Average volume was 2.83 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 2.31 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 25.12% While, its Average True Range was 2.42.

Raw Stochastic average of Paccar Inc. (PCAR) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 65.62%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 26.38% 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 19.13% that was higher than 17.79% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.