A new trading day began on Monday, with Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) stock price down -1.49% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $138.83. A’s price has ranged from $96.80 to $155.35 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Healthcare sector company grew by 7.00% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -3.69%. With a float of $286.18 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $292.12 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 18100 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 54.86%, operating margin of 23.15%, and the pretax margin is 23.7%.
Agilent Technologies Inc. (A) Insider and Institutional Ownership
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Diagnostics & Research Industry. The insider ownership of Agilent Technologies Inc. is 0.40%, while institutional ownership is 91.57%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 27 ’24, was worth 7,050. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 47 shares at a rate of $150.00, taking the stock ownership to the 24,071 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 26 ’24, when Company’s Senior Vice President sold 9,990 for $145.00, making the entire transaction worth $1,448,550. This insider now owns 40,011 shares in total.
Agilent Technologies Inc. (A) Latest Financial update
In its latest quarterly report, released on 7/31/2024, the company reported earnings of 1.38 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.37 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -3.69% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.10% during the next five years compared to 33.93% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Agilent Technologies Inc.’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.37. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.05. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 27.73.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.83, a number that is poised to hit 1.41 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.65 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Agilent Technologies Inc. (A)
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) saw its 5-day average volume 1.34 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.69 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.50%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.14.
During the past 100 days, Agilent Technologies Inc.’s (A) raw stochastic average was set at 48.61%, which indicates a significant increase from 4.72% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.55% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 27.86% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $140.90, while its 200-day Moving Average is $138.35. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $138.31 in the near term. At $139.85, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $140.90. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $135.72, it is likely to go to the next support level at $134.67. The third support level lies at $133.13 if the price breaches the second support level.
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 39.30 billion, the company has a total of 291,761K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 6,833 M while annual income is 1,240 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 1,578 M while its latest quarter income was 282,000 K.
