Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG) kicked off on Tuesday, up 0.06% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $81.45. Over the past 52 weeks, GGG has traded in a range of $73.03-$94.77.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Industrials sector saw sales topped by 6.11%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -4.21%. With a float of $167.21 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $167.95 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 4000 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 53.64%, operating margin of 28.62%, and the pretax margin is 27.42%.
Graco Inc. (GGG) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Specialty Industrial Machinery Industry. The insider ownership of Graco Inc. is 0.97%, while institutional ownership is 89.85%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 30 ’24, was worth 1,506,182. In this transaction Director of this company sold 18,000 shares at a rate of $83.68, taking the stock ownership to the 0 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 30 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 18,000 for $83.51, making the entire transaction worth $1,503,180.
Graco Inc. (GGG) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 0.8 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.79) by 0.01. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.67 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -4.21% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.00% during the next five years compared to 8.36% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Graco Inc.’s (GGG) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 3.25. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.46. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 29.65.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.83, a number that is poised to hit 0.77 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.07 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Graco Inc. (GGG)
The latest stats from [Graco Inc., GGG] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.8 million was superior to 0.73 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 20.65%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.38.
During the past 100 days, Graco Inc.’s (GGG) raw stochastic average was set at 36.39%, which indicates a significant increase from 16.13% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 11.93% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 18.62% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $83.91, while its 200-day Moving Average is $84.74. Now, the first resistance to watch is $81.96. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $82.42. The third major resistance level sits at $83.15. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $80.76, it is likely to go to the next support level at $80.03. The third support level lies at $79.57 if the price breaches the second support level.
Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 13.76 billion has total of 168,850K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 2,196 M in contrast with the sum of 506,510 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 519,210 K and last quarter income was 122,200 K.
