A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) stock price down -0.75% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $82.22. GGG’s price has ranged from $72.06 to $92.86 over the past 52 weeks.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.45% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 6.50%. With a float of $165.47 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $167.13 million.
The firm has a total of 4300 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 52.76%, operating margin of 27.04%, and the pretax margin is 27.93%.
Graco Inc (GGG) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Specialty Industrial Machinery Industry. The insider ownership of Graco Inc is 0.99%, while institutional ownership is 90.07%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.50% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.49% during the next five years compared to 7.07% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Graco Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 2.53. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.35. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.96.
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 3.18 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Graco Inc (GGG)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Graco Inc, GGG], we can find that recorded value of 0.75 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 0.9 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 77.20%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.13.
During the past 100 days, Graco Inc’s (GGG) raw stochastic average was set at 50.83%, which indicates a significant decrease from 73.70% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 21.69% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.09% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $82.25, while its 200-day Moving Average is $84.13. Now, the first resistance to watch is $82.15. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $82.69. The third major resistance level sits at $83.12. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $81.18, it is likely to go to the next support level at $80.75. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $80.21.
Graco Inc (NYSE: GGG) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 13.64 billion, the company has a total of 167,133K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 2,113 M while annual income is 486,080 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 528,280 K while its latest quarter income was 124,100 K.
