Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) on Friday, soared 1.07% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $80.50. Within the past 52 weeks, GGG’s price has moved between $72.06 and $92.86.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Industrials Sector giant was 5.45%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.86%. With a float of $165.47 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $167.13 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 4300 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 52.76%, operating margin of 27.04%, and the pretax margin is 27.93%.
Graco Inc (GGG) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Specialty Industrial Machinery industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Graco Inc is 0.99%, while institutional ownership is 90.86%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 30 ’25, was worth 2,744,846. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 03 ’24, when Company’s President, WW LED, Pres SCA sold 15,000 for $91.06, making the entire transaction worth $1,365,954. This insider now owns 14,516 shares in total.
Graco Inc (GGG) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.74 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.86% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.83% during the next five years compared to 7.07% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) Trading Performance Indicators
Graco Inc (GGG) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 2.53 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 6.33. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.89.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.83, a number that is poised to hit 0.79 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.19 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Graco Inc (GGG)
Looking closely at Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG), its last 5-days average volume was 1.24 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 0.9 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 71.72%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.62.
During the past 100 days, Graco Inc’s (GGG) raw stochastic average was set at 47.96%, which indicates a significant decrease from 92.91% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 35.59% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 25.01% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $82.90, while its 200-day Moving Average is $84.13. However, in the short run, Graco Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $81.99. Second resistance stands at $82.61. The third major resistance level sits at $83.75. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $80.23, it is likely to go to the next support level at $79.09. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $78.47.
Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 13.60 billion based on 167,133K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 2,113 M and income totals 486,080 K. The company made 548,670 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 108,710 K in sales during its previous quarter.
