Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) kicked off on Monday, up 3.40% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $317.10. Over the past 52 weeks, APD has traded in a range of $212.24-$332.42.
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Basic Materials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.83% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 4.46%. With a float of $220.60 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $222.20 million.
The firm has a total of 23000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 57.36%, operating margin of 31.51%, and the pretax margin is 33.9%.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
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 89.64%. 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.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 4.46% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.20% during the next five years compared to 16.69% 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 1.34. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.05.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 17.18, a number that is poised to hit 2.87 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 14.19 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Air Products & Chemicals Inc, APD], we can find that recorded value of 1.21 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.61 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 91.26%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.38.
During the past 100 days, Air Products & Chemicals Inc’s (APD) raw stochastic average was set at 94.75%, which indicates a significant decrease from 99.24% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 18.22% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 28.34% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $306.63, while its 200-day Moving Average is $266.78. Now, the first resistance to watch is $330.79. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $333.69. The third major resistance level sits at $339.29. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $322.29, it is likely to go to the next support level at $316.69. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $313.79.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 73.18 billion has total of 222,314K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 12,101 M in contrast with the sum of 3,828 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 3,188 M and last quarter income was 1,950 M.
