-9.93% percent quarterly performance for Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (STX) is not indicative of the underlying story

A new trading day began on Friday, with Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (NASDAQ: STX) stock price up 2.66% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $85.62. STX’s price has ranged from $82.31 to $115.32 over the past 52 weeks.

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During the last 5-year period, the sales drop of Technology Sector giant was -7.20%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 475.75%. With a float of $210.27 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $211.71 million.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 30000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 31.79%, operating margin of 16.88%, and the pretax margin is 15.71%.

Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (STX) Insider Activity

As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Computer Hardware Industry. The insider ownership of Seagate Technology Holdings Plc is 0.68%, while institutional ownership is 91.18%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 03 ’25, was worth 2,031,474. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer of this company sold 20,000 shares at a rate of $101.57, taking the stock ownership to the 572,644 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 03 ’25, when Company’s Director sold 750 for $102.95, making the entire transaction worth $77,212. This insider now owns 5,805 shares in total.

Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (STX) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.09 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 475.75% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 100.09% during the next five years compared to -25.87% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (NASDAQ: STX) Trading Performance Indicators

Here are Seagate Technology Holdings Plc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.74. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.32. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 27.17.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.46, a number that is poised to hit 1.73 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.70 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (STX)

Looking closely at Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (NASDAQ: STX), its last 5-days average volume was 3.19 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 3.43 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 13.93%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.21.

During the past 100 days, Seagate Technology Holdings Plc’s (STX) raw stochastic average was set at 11.68%, which indicates a significant decrease from 18.14% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 40.08% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 33.28% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $95.80, while its 200-day Moving Average is $99.94. However, in the short run, Seagate Technology Holdings Plc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $88.71. Second resistance stands at $89.52. The third major resistance level sits at $90.41. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $87.01, it is likely to go to the next support level at $86.12. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $85.31.

Seagate Technology Holdings Plc (NASDAQ: STX) Key Stats

With a market capitalization of 18.61 billion, the company has a total of 211,707K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 6,551 M while annual income is 335,000 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 2,325 M while its latest quarter income was 336,000 K.