On Monday, Genuine Parts Co (NYSE: GPC) was 3.74% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $124.80. A 52-week range for GPC has been $112.74 – $164.45.
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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 4.72% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -12.45%. With a float of $138.52 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $139.57 million.
The firm has a total of 60000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 35.61%, operating margin of 6.56%, and the pretax margin is 6.13%.
Genuine Parts Co (GPC) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Genuine Parts Co stocks. The insider ownership of Genuine Parts Co is 0.37%, while institutional ownership is 81.85%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 01 ’24, was worth 100,238. In this transaction Group President, GPC N.A. of this company bought 750 shares at a rate of $133.65, taking the stock ownership to the 35,189 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 21 ’24, when Company’s Director sold 3,000 for $151.29, making the entire transaction worth $453,870. This insider now owns 13,006 shares in total.
Genuine Parts Co (GPC) Earnings and Forecasts
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 2.26 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 2.2) by 0.06. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.04 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -12.45% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.10% during the next five years compared to 11.14% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Genuine Parts Co (NYSE: GPC) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Genuine Parts Co (GPC) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.57. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.79. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 20.32.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.77, a number that is poised to hit 1.56 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.49 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Genuine Parts Co (GPC)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Genuine Parts Co, GPC], we can find that recorded value of 1.13 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.06 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 70.22%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.15.
During the past 100 days, Genuine Parts Co’s (GPC) raw stochastic average was set at 45.86%, which indicates a significant decrease from 90.19% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.12% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 44.72% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $129.29, while its 200-day Moving Average is $141.62. Now, the first resistance to watch is $131.26. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $133.06. The third major resistance level sits at $135.51. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $127.01, it is likely to go to the next support level at $124.56. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $122.76.
Genuine Parts Co (NYSE: GPC) Key Stats
There are 139,036K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 18.31 billion. As of now, sales total 23,091 M while income totals 1,317 M. Its latest quarter income was 5,970 M while its last quarter net income were 226,580 K.
