Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) on Tuesday, plunged -1.48% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $335.62. Within the past 52 weeks, APD’s price has moved between $212.24 and $336.42.
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Annual sales at Basic Materials sector company grew by 6.83% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 3.88%. With a float of $220.66 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $222.37 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 23000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 32.5%, operating margin of 37.03%, and the pretax margin is 39.84%.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Specialty Chemicals industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Air Products & Chemicals Inc is 0.77%, while institutional ownership is 89.48%. 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) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 3.88% 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 16.77% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) Trading Performance Indicators
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.34 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 6.08.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 17.18, a number that is poised to hit 2.85 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 14.11 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD)
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) saw its 5-day average volume 1.21 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.61 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 75.48%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 5.57.
During the past 100 days, Air Products & Chemicals Inc’s (APD) raw stochastic average was set at 92.85%, which indicates a significant increase from 77.40% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 15.64% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 27.23% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $315.97, while its 200-day Moving Average is $272.36. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $335.37 in the near term. At $340.10, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $343.20. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $327.54, it is likely to go to the next support level at $324.44. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $319.71.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 73.53 billion based on 222,379K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 12,101 M and income totals 3,828 M. The company made 3,188 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,950 M in sales during its previous quarter.
