Patterson Companies Inc (NASDAQ: PDCO) kicked off on Tuesday, up 0.86% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $21.04. Over the past 52 weeks, PDCO has traded in a range of $19.89-$32.58.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Healthcare sector was 3.43%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 0.84%. With a float of $77.69 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $89.70 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 7600 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 21.03%, operating margin of 3.84%, and the pretax margin is 3.37%.
Patterson Companies Inc (PDCO) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Medical Distribution Industry. The insider ownership of Patterson Companies Inc is 11.86%, while institutional ownership is 87.58%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 16 ’24, was worth 180,328. In this transaction President & CEO of this company sold 7,216 shares at a rate of $24.99, taking the stock ownership to the 230,072 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 03 ’24, when Company’s President & CEO sold 5,875 for $23.71, making the entire transaction worth $139,322. This insider now owns 237,288 shares in total.
Patterson Companies Inc (PDCO) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 7/31/2024, the organization reported 0.5 earnings per share (EPS), lower than consensus estimate (set at 0.58) by -0.08. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.66 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 0.84% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.83% during the next five years compared to 17.28% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Patterson Companies Inc (NASDAQ: PDCO) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Patterson Companies Inc’s (PDCO) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.67. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.29.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.83, a number that is poised to hit 0.49 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.52 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Patterson Companies Inc (PDCO)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.94 million, its volume of 0.6 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 38.57%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.57.
During the past 100 days, Patterson Companies Inc’s (PDCO) raw stochastic average was set at 19.37%, which indicates a significant decrease from 71.14% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 21.12% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 39.25% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $21.33, while its 200-day Moving Average is $24.79. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $21.58 in the near term. At $21.94, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $22.65. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $20.51, it is likely to go to the next support level at $19.80. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $19.44.
Patterson Companies Inc (NASDAQ: PDCO) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 1.87 billion has total of 88,145K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 6,568 M in contrast with the sum of 185,930 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,542 M and last quarter income was 13,720 K.
