Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) kicked off on Tuesday, up 1.65% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $278.70. Over the past 52 weeks, APD has traded in a range of $243.69-$341.14.
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Basic Materials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.29% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -3.01%. With a float of $220.58 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $222.54 million.
The firm has a total of 23000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 31.94%, operating margin of 12.12%, and the pretax margin is 15.81%.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. The insider ownership of Air Products & Chemicals Inc is 0.88%, while institutional ownership is 92.59%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 05 ’25, was worth 181,706. In this transaction Sr. VP, Glob Helium & Rare Gas of this company sold 589 shares at a rate of $308.50, taking the stock ownership to the 719 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 05 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 589 for $308.50, making the entire transaction worth $181,706.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -3.01% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.26% 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
Take a look at Air Products & Chemicals Inc’s (APD) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.85. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.24.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.88, a number that is poised to hit 2.98 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 13.05 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Air Products & Chemicals Inc, APD], we can find that recorded value of 1.67 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.43 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 96.27%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.29.
During the past 100 days, Air Products & Chemicals Inc’s (APD) raw stochastic average was set at 40.63%, which indicates a significant decrease from 98.12% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.15% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 30.86% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $273.94, while its 200-day Moving Average is $297.77. Now, the first resistance to watch is $285.77. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $288.24. The third major resistance level sits at $292.86. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $278.68, it is likely to go to the next support level at $274.06. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $271.58.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 63.04 billion has total of 222,544K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 12,101 M in contrast with the sum of 3,828 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 2,916 M and last quarter income was -1,731 M.
