Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) kicked off on Tuesday, down -0.93% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $318.26. Over the past 52 weeks, APD has traded in a range of $212.24-$332.42.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Basic Materials sector saw sales topped by 9.52%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 7.14%. With a float of $220.60 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $222.20 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 23000 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 31.67%, operating margin of 23.1%, and the pretax margin is 26.1%.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. The insider ownership of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. is 0.77%, while institutional ownership is 88.32%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 05 ’23, was worth 28,327. In this transaction VP, Controller & PAO of this company sold 107 shares at a rate of $264.74, taking the stock ownership to the 1,270 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 13 ’23, when Company’s Chairman, Pres. and CEO bought 11,000 for $264.42, making the entire transaction worth $2,908,620. This insider now owns 670,673 shares in total.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.14% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.00% during the next five years compared to 8.70% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Air Products & Chemicals Inc.’s (APD) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.10. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.79.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 11.51, a number that is poised to hit 3.48 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 13.34 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD)
The latest stats from [Air Products & Chemicals Inc., APD] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.34 million was inferior to 1.61 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.11%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 5.46.
During the past 100 days, Air Products & Chemicals Inc.’s (APD) raw stochastic average was set at 80.19%, which indicates a significant increase from 11.02% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.10% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 29.10% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $296.20, while its 200-day Moving Average is $263.11. Now, the first resistance to watch is $316.75. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $318.20. The third major resistance level sits at $319.28. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $314.22, it is likely to go to the next support level at $313.13. The third support level lies at $311.68 if the price breaches the second support level.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 70.09 billion has total of 222,314K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 12,600 M in contrast with the sum of 2,300 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 2,986 M and last quarter income was 696,600 K.
