Dow Inc (DOW) 20 Days SMA touches -6.98%: The odds favor the bear

Dow Inc (NYSE: DOW) on Monday, plunged -2.08% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $48.97. Within the past 52 weeks, DOW’s price has moved between $47.78 and $60.69.

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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Basic Materials sector was 0.18%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -5.28%. With a float of $698.62 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $702.29 million.

Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 35900 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 10.74%, operating margin of 6.06%, and the pretax margin is 2.38%.

Dow Inc (DOW) Insider Activity

Observing investor behavior towards Chemicals industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Dow Inc is 0.21%, while institutional ownership is 69.47%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 16 ’23, was worth 255,437. In this transaction Director of this company bought 5,000 shares at a rate of $51.09, taking the stock ownership to the 33,665 shares.

Dow Inc (DOW) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -5.28% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.13% during the next five years compared to -33.38% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Dow Inc (NYSE: DOW) Trading Performance Indicators

Dow Inc (DOW) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.04 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.77. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 40.11.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.49, a number that is poised to hit 0.37 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.19 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Dow Inc (DOW)

Compared to the last year’s volume of 4.54 million, its volume of 6.83 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 6.63%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.97.

During the past 100 days, Dow Inc’s (DOW) raw stochastic average was set at 5.72%, which indicates a significant decrease from 8.41% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.18% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 21.01% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $52.27, while its 200-day Moving Average is $54.77. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $48.61 in the near term. At $49.26, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $49.84. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $47.37, it is likely to go to the next support level at $46.79. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $46.13.

Dow Inc (NYSE: DOW) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 33.29 billion based on 700,092K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 44,622 M and income totals 589,000 K. The company made 10,879 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 214,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.