Let’s look at the key reasons that are pushing Agilent Technologies Inc (A) to new highs

Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A) kicked off on Friday, up 0.09% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $151.38. Over the past 52 weeks, A has traded in a range of $124.16-$155.35.

Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.04% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 5.18%. With a float of $284.29 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $285.19 million.

The firm has a total of 17900 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 54.38%, operating margin of 23.1%, and the pretax margin is 23.36%.

Agilent Technologies Inc (A) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Diagnostics & Research Industry. The insider ownership of Agilent Technologies Inc is 0.43%, while institutional ownership is 89.73%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 21 ’25, was worth 286,650. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 1,911 shares at a rate of $150.00, taking the stock ownership to the 39,652 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 21 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 1,911 for $150.00, making the entire transaction worth $286,650.

Agilent Technologies Inc (A) Recent Fiscal highlights

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.31 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.18% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 8.33% during the next five years compared to 5.63% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Agilent Technologies Inc’s (A) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.58. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.65. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 31.52.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.43, a number that is poised to hit 1.27 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.11 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Agilent Technologies Inc (A)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Agilent Technologies Inc, A], we can find that recorded value of 1.8 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.76 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 63.45%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.76.

During the past 100 days, Agilent Technologies Inc’s (A) raw stochastic average was set at 91.99%, which indicates a significant increase from 86.22% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 25.58% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 24.58% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $139.59, while its 200-day Moving Average is $138.28. Now, the first resistance to watch is $153.41. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $155.29. The third major resistance level sits at $156.75. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $150.07, it is likely to go to the next support level at $148.61. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $146.73.

Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 43.27 billion has total of 285,595K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 6,510 M in contrast with the sum of 1,289 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,701 M and last quarter income was 351,000 K.